Sophia Sleigh reports: A hospital lost a filing cabinet containing vulnerable patients’ confidential details in a major security breach, it has emerged. Documents, containing data on 63 patients – who could be from anywhere in south-west London – disappeared from Sutton Hospital last year prompting an investigation by Government inspectors. Privacy campaigners have called the…
GA: Hundreds at risk for ID theft after info was taken from charity
Rachel Stockman reports: Melanie Miller, founded Suddenly Single Parents Inc., a non-profit that helps young parents, said she found all of the agency’s belongings gone after her property management company hired a mold remediation company to cleanup the office on Gresham Road. When she returned from the weekend clean up, the charity’s stuff, including furniture…
Hartford Can't Avoid Hospital Data Breach Coverage
Law360 reports that a California Judge ruled Hartford Casualty Insurance Co. cannot dodge coverage for two class actions seeking $20 million over a 2011 Stanford Hospital and Clinics breach. Subscription required to read their coverage. Previous coverage of the breach on this site can be found here and here.
Hijacking of AV firms’ websites may be linked to hack on Network Solutions
Dan Goodin reports: At least three high-profile websites that receive services from Network Solutions have been hijacked in recent days in attacks that are prompting speculation that the compromises are the result of a security lapse inside the popular domain registrar and Web host. Competing antivirus providers Avira and AVG are confirmed to have been…
Former SCDHHS employee pleads guilty to insider breach and conspiracy
Back in April 2012, I noted an insider breach at the South Carolina Department of Health and Human Services, after they discovered that an employee had copied 228,000 Medicaid recipients’ information and sent it to his personal e-mail. The data were reportedly also shared with one other person. In February 2013, Christopher R. Lykes, Jr., the…
TN: Laptop stolen from Hope Family Health employee's home contained personal data of approximately 8,000 patients
Josh Cross reports: Files containing personal information for up to 8,000 individuals who visited a local health care center since 2005 were on a laptop that was stolen from a Hendersonville home in August. The computer, which was issued to a member of Hope Family Health’s finance department, was taken during a burglary Aug. 4…