All 150 patient records missing for three months from Saint Joseph Hospital and Lutheran Medical Center have been found, according to Exempla Healthcare and FedEx. The documents had been lost by FedEx while being shipped between two third-party groups doing compliance and audit checks to make sure Exempla Healthcare meets complex Medicare requirements. FedEx spokesman…
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GA: Agency Contractor Burglarized
From the Georgia State Board of Pardons and Paroles: Late last week, the offices of a state contractor in Roswell, Georgia, were burglarized and a computer was stolen. The contractor was working with the agency to convert its Case Management System to a newer technology. Although the stolen computer was the property of the contractor,…
State Reaches Settlement With BNY Mellon
[…] BNY Mellon was directed to immediately notify each affected bank customer by mail and provide 24 months of credit protection for the financial accounts that might be affected by the data breach. In addition, BNY Mellon was presented and complied with numerous subpoenas from the Department of Consumer Protection concerning its actions before and…
Ameriprise notifies customers of online breach
Ameriprise Advisor Services, Inc. (formerly H&R Block Financial Advisors) notified the Maryland Attorney General’s Office on December 24 of a breach involving a third-party vendor. According to the notification (pdf), AASI uses a third-party vendor to provide clients with online access to their accounts (usernames and passwords). The unnamed vendor notified them on December 17…
MA: CityStage eyes credit card breach
Jack Flynn reports: A security breach involving CityStage’s computer system might have exposed credit card information of 60 customers on the Internet, theater officials acknowledged Tuesday. Cynthia J. Anzalotti, president of the Springfield Performing Arts Development Corp., which oversees CityStage, said the breach was limited to customers purchasing holiday gift cards, and not patrons buying…
KR: GS Caltex cleared in data theft case
Follow-up to an incident originally covered on PogoWasRight.org: Prosecutors have cleared energy provider GS Caltex, two of its information managers and affiliate GS Nextation of allegations that they failed in their duty to protect personal information of more than 11 million customers. Five employees of GS Nextation, an insurance affiliate of GS Caltex, were prosecuted…