It seems that homebrewing supplier Midwest Supplies, LLC of Minnesota had a security breach on June 13 that they discovered on July 19. Letters should be going out within a few days to those affected. In a letter dated August 31 that has been submitted to the California Attorney General’s Office, David Kidd, President of…
UTHealth informs patients of incident related to patient information
The following notice was submitted by a reader: UT Physicians, the medical group practice of The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth) Medical School, announces that an unencrypted laptop computer containing some patient information was discovered missing on Aug. 2 from a locked closet in a UT Physicians orthopedic clinic. UT Physicians…
Hill AFB employee personal info improperly transmitted
Mitch Shaw reports: More than 500 Hill Air Force Base employees had sensitive personal information compromised after another base employee improperly transmitted the information to an unprotected email address. In early July, a base administrative employee was working with data that contained the names and Social Security numbers of hundreds of base employees. The employee,…
Other recent breaches that flew under the media radar
State web sites that post breach reports often reveal breaches we didn’t learn about via media coverage. Here are five that I learned about in the past few days: Republic Services reported that a laptop stolen from an employee’s home contained current and former employees’ names and Social Security numbers. The theft occurred in Maricopa…
HHS adds 13 breaches to its breach tool
HHS added 13 more breaches to its breach tool this week. Let’s start with the breaches we already had some information about and indicate what new information can be gleaned from HHS’s entries: The Vitreo-Retinal Medical Group breach reportedly affected 1,837. The California Correctional Health Care Services breach affected 1,001 inmates. The Indiana Family & Social Services Administration…
Ninth months later, almost 860 Indiana residents are first being notified of the ADPI breach.
James D. Wolf Jr. of the Post-Tribune reported today that up to 860 patients who used the City of Valparaiso Fire Department ambulance service last year would be receiving breach notification letters from ADPI. You remember the ADPI breach, of course. I first reported on it November, 2012, when I also started compiling a list…