Tressi L. Cordaro of Jackson Lewis writes: On Monday we blogged about the availability of the new OSHA Injury Tracking Application (“ITA”) that serves as the web portal for the submission of injury and illness information (300 Logs, 301 Forms and 300A Forms) under OSHA’s “Improve Tracking of Workplace Injuries and Illnesses” rule (aka Electronic Recordkeeping…
Category: U.S.
MN: Error exposes private info on thousands of South Wash. Co. students
Solvejg Wastvedt reports: Leaders of the South Washington County Schools apologized Thursday for a massive, accidental release of private student information sent out in an email attachment Wednesday from the district’s transportation department. The attachment contains names, grades, identification numbers, email addresses, mailing addresses, phone numbers, bus routes, pick up and drop off times, pick…
NYS State Comptroller DiNapoli audit of City of Yonkers
Well, this sounds like an epic FAIL on the City of Yonker’s part, doesn’t it? City of Yonkers – Information Technology (Westchester County) The IT department’s acceptable computer use policy was not signed or acknowledged by all employees and city officials have also not classified personal, private and sensitive information based on its level of…
TriPoint Medical Center: Lake Health investigating missing obstetrics records
Tawana Roberts reports: The obstetrics department at Lake Health’s TriPoint Medical Center recently suffered a breach of about 750 OB patients’ protected health information. According to a Lake Health news release, no Social Security numbers or patient financial information was compromised. In June a log book maintained with limited but protected patient health information for…
Veterans group sues Pentagon after personal military records exposed
Vera Bergengruen reports: A veterans organization is suing the Pentagon for exposing private details about troops’ military service on “a truly massive scale” due to lax security on one of its websites. […] The Servicemembers Civil Relief Act website, which according to the Pentagon receives more than 2.3 billion searches a year, is mean to…
State juror pool data breach exposed Social Security numbers
Kieran Nicholson reported: A lapse in security at the Colorado Judicial Department led to information about jurors in Colorado, including Social Security numbers, being exposed on the internet for about a year. The state court administrator’s office was contacted July 27 by a person in Alaska who alerted state officials about the potential for massive…