Penn State University recently reported an incident to the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office that involves a now-defunct club. According to their report, the university was notified on April 13 that a historical document uploaded to the Undergraduate Law Society‘s web site was a spreadsheet that contained two fields – SSN and DOB – that…
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Low-tech break-in results in breach notification in Phoenix
The administrative offices of Mountain Park Health Center in Phoenix was burglarized on March 22nd. Burglars rifled through the contents of locked file cabinets containing personnel information, but none of the contents were stolen. The kinds of employee information in the files included names, addresses, telephone numbers, SSN, dates of birth, and limited financial information. Through…
MI: Patient info at 2 ProMedica hospitals breached
Elena Saavedra Buckley report: Private medical records of 3,472 patients at two ProMedica hospitals in Michigan were inappropriately breached by seven employees, Julie Yaroch, the health system’s president at both hospitals, told The Blade on Friday night. The patients’ names, birth dates, medications, and clinical information from acute care services were accessed at ProMedica Bixby…
NM: UNM Hospital notifying patients of data breach
KRQE reports a breach involving patients data from University of New Mexico Hospital: UNM Hospital is notifying more than 2,800 patients of a data breach. They say that limited medical information may have been mailed to a wrong address due to a technical issue with the hospital’s billing systems. Information like the names of patients, their…
Fed records show dozens of cybersecurity breaches
Jason Lange and Dustin Volz reports: The U.S. Federal Reserve detected more than 50 cyber breaches between 2011 and 2015, with several incidents described internally as “espionage,” according to Fed records. The central bank’s staff suspected hackers or spies in many of the incidents, the records show. The Fed’s computer systems play a critical role…
Redskins notes: Laptop with medical data stolen from trainer
Michael Phillips reports: The Redskins announced Wednesday that a laptop was stolen from a team trainer that may have contained medical information about current and former NFL players. The NFL Players Association sent an e-mail to its members saying it had been advised the laptop “had copies of the medical exam results for NFL Combine…