Luxury hotel chain Nobel House Hotels and Resorts is notifying customers of a breach they uncovered in the wake of reports by customers of fraudulent charges on payment cards. In a letter sent to those potentially affected, Patrick R. Colee, Chairman of Noble House Hotels & Resorts, writes, in part: Through our investigation, Noble House…
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U. Cincinnati Medical Center email errors affect 1,064 patients
Joe Rosemeyer reports: More than 1,000 patients of UC Health may have had their private information exposed, all because of an email address mixup. The mistake — two letters switched in an email domain name (the part after the @ sign) — happened nine times starting in August 2014, spokeswoman Diana Lara said late Friday…
NC: DHHS discloses second Medicaid data breach
WRAL reports that the North Carolina Department of Health & Human Services has had a second breach involving hundreds of Medicaid patients. It was the second time in as many months that an employee error involving unencrypted e-mail resulted in exposure of patient information. This time, the breach reportedly affected 524 patients. Officials said they have installed…
NJ: Personal records left unprotected at shuttered Brisbane center
Mike Davis reports: Inside the former Arthur Brisbane Child Treatment Center sat piles of cardboard boxes, turning the former psychiatric hospital into a makeshift storage facility. The files contained within run the gamut of both state employees and Brisbane patients, including personal information such as social security numbers, medical history and banking information. The only problem? The…
Illinois data breach: Dept. of Insurance posts personal information on public website
Marcia Lense reports: The Illinois Department of Insurance announced an inadvertent data release, that exposed critical personal information. According to a news release, the department received a complaint that Social Security numbers from a health care provider could be seen. The department says it had sent filings from Blue Cross Blue Shield to the System…
Common Market in Maine notifies customers of payment card breach
I’m not sure that posting a breach notification on a Facebook page is sufficient when you also have a web site where you could post the announcement. Assuming everyone is on Facebook is risky. Case in point: Common Market in Union, Maine, posted this on their Facebook page on October 30. ATTENTION COMMON MARKET CUSTOMERS…