March seems to have been a relatively quiet month for the Veterans Administration in terms of breaches reported to Congress. The only incident of note involved the Seattle VA. According to their monthly report, during the night of February 28, a briefcase containing two lists of patient names was stolen from a physician’s locked vehicle….
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Seventh Circuit revives data breach lawsuit against P.F. Chang’s
Samantha Bomkamp reports that the Seventh Circuit has done it again when it comes to allowing data breach lawsuits to go forward: A lawsuit over a 2014 data breach at P.F. Chang’s has been revived by an appeals court, which said two plaintiffs have shown enough evidence to pursue their claim. Two Illinois men, John…
Data stolen from Baltimore City employees, city announces
There’s a lot we don’t know about this one yet, and it’s not clear to me whether this incident will fall into the phishing for w-2 list, but Tom Prudente reports: Someone or a group has stolen personal information from an unknown number of Baltimore City employees and filed fraudulent tax returns, the city announced…
KY: Documents Containing Personal Info Found Outside Payday Loan Business
Thousands of documents containing personal and financial information were found unshredded and scattered behind the Money Now payday loan business on Taylor Boulevard. Boxes of financial records were found by another business owner in the same strip center who began alerting people he had their information. Read more on WAVE3.
Documents containing personal information found in lot
KTRK in Texas reports that Megatel Builders is denying claims about what was in documents found outside a model home: League City police are investigating exactly what was in paperwork left beside a subdivision model home. Neighbors say it contained copies of driver licenses, cancelled checks, and home sale contracts. A builder’s representative said it contained…
American College of Cardiology breach affects 1,400 institutions
Akanksha Jayanthi reports: The American College of Cardiology has notified 1,400 institutions some patient data may have been compromised after the data was inadvertently made available to a third party vendor. During a software redesign of the ACC’s national cardiovascular data registry, a table of patient data was copied into the software test environment sometime…