Jennifer Bauer reports: The personal information of hundreds of renters was exposed after crooks broke into an apartment complex front office. The break-in happened at the Carrington of Champion Forest apartments in the 13000 block of Cutten Road back in August but one family told Local 2 they are still dealing with the fallout several…
Former BYU-Idaho student charged with grand theft and computer crimes
Caleb Despain reports: Jacob Mahonri Espinal, a former BYU-Idaho student, was formally charged with two counts of computer crimes, felonies and grand theft, a felony. […] According to the Rexburg Police Department report, Espinal, a former document processor and graduation specialist at BYU-Idaho’s Student Records and Registrations Office, posted an associates degree in science he…
Update on Coulee Medical Center breach
There’s an update to the Coulee Medical Center breach, where 2,500 patients were notified that a physician had improperly shared PHI with his wife between January 2010 and November 2013. He subsequently claimed that his wife, an actuary, was helping him develop a statistical tool for analyzing data. Even so… From HHS’s summary of their…
Update on UHS-Pruitt breach, and we learn of another Pruitt breach
In today’s installment, we update one Pruitt breach reported on this blog in December 2013, and we also find out about another Pruitt breach, not previously reported on this site. HHS has updated its breach entry for a September 2013 incident involving a UHS-Pruitt stolen laptop with data on 1,300 patients: “A manager’s unencrypted laptop computer was stolen…
Update on Lawrence Memorial Hospital breach
In November of 2011, this site reported on a breach involving Lawrence Memorial Hospital in Kansas. Available information at the time indicated that 8,000 patients’ financial information might have been accessed. The online payment system was provided by Mid Continent Credit Services. Yesterday, HHS updated their entry on the incident. Their records show that 8,275…
Update on Southern Perioperative Services breach
In January 2011, this site noted that Southern Perioperative Services in Alabama had reported a breach to HHS that occurred in November 2010 and affected 2,000 patients. Other than HHS’s coding of the incident as “Theft, Other Portable Electronic Device, Other,” no additional details were available. Yesterday, HHS updated its entry for the breach to…