Cristen Manion areports: Hundreds of Ohioans who receive benefits from the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services or Medicaid may have inadvertently had their information leaked by a computer error. According to a release, the Ohio Departments of Administrative Services, Medicaid, and Job and Family Services (ODJFS) are taking steps to address the potential…
VoterVoice database leaks email addresses, messages to elected officials
Teri Robinson reports: An unsecured database at VoterVoice exposed a trove of personal information, including more than 300,000 unique email addresses, home addresses and phone numbers of people who have sent messages to legislators or participated in campaigns around hot political topics through “the grassroots advocacy system.” Read more on SC Magazine.
WRHA: Client Data Breached After Bag Stolen from Car
The Winnipeg Regional Health Authority says a bag was stolen last month containing the personal information of several clients. The bag was taken from an unattended parked vehicle of a WRHA employee on March 7, containing a notebook with the employee’s schedule of activities and included the names and ward locations of clients. The health…
Sensitive data from 8,000 people exposed in privacy breach at BC Pension Corporation after microfiche goes missing during office move.
Skye Ryan reports: A privacy breach of BC Pension Corporation data has left thousands vulnerable to identity theft and those who were impacted wonder why it has taken the corporation two months to notify them. The breach was confirmed Jan. 28 but victims are just learning about the breach now and are being told their…
Is a third-party incident about to fuel a health insurance fraud ring?
Despite the fact that we are constantly bombarded with reports of breaches, there are even more breaches that seem to escape media coverage. I’ve been wondering about whether something I noticed recently might be something that will be used to fuel an insurance fraud operation. My curiosity was triggered when I read a notification from…
Health data breaches due to external actors continue to predominate recently.
Because I’m at a conference, it’s been hard to update a lot, but here are a few of the health data breaches I’ve spotted this week: Main Line Endoscopy Centers in Pennsylvania announced that it recently mailed notifications to patients whose personal information was in an employee’s email account a t the time that the…