Kevin Wheatley reports: A bill that would improve electronic safeguards at state agencies, including notifying affected individuals of data breaches, flew through a House committee Thursday. The House State Government Committee unanimously passed House Bill 5, which boasts 74 co-sponsors and has been pushed by Kentucky Auditor Adam Edelen after his office released an audit…
CT: 850 St. Francis Hospital patients notified after records stolen from contract physician's car
NBC reports: Saint Francis Hospital and Medical Center has reached out to more than 850 patients after records were stolen from a doctor’s vehicle in December to notify them of the privacy breach. The hospital released a statement saying it has notified 858 patients after learning that paper records were stolen from Dr. Bindu Vanapalli’s…
Genworth notifies Long Term Care certificate holders after feds uncover data theft
Genworth Life Insurance Company is notifying certificate holders in three long term care plans after learning that their information was stolen. On December 19, 2013 Genworth was notified by federal law enforcement officials that some Genworth Group Long Term Care (LTC) certificate holders’ information was recovered during a criminal investigation. In a letter dated January 13 to…
Coca-Cola notifying employees after laptops with personnel information were stolen (updated)
Things don’t always go better with Coke, it seems. Coca-Cola Refreshments (CCR) is notifying employees “and other individuals” that they discovered on December 10th that several laptops assigned to current and former CCR/CCE users had been stolen. The laptops contained personal information. The letter, signed by their CIO, Tom Miller, does not indicate when the…
HHS updates breach tool to provide filters
I see that HHS’s breach tool has been made more user-friendly by providing some filters: That’s good to see, although it seems that they’re no longer showing a counter on that page, and as of last week, that counter showed 804 while the .csv file showed 792. I was aware that there were some duplicates…
Same day, different email attachment gaffe
And yet another email attachment gaffe to report today, this one involving Apex Systems, whose employee accidentally appended a spreadsheet with employees’ names, Social Security numbers, and salary information to an email sent on December 1. The mistake was discovered on December 24. The notification sent to Maryland’s Attorney General and affected employees does not…