A few weeks ago I noted that William Jennings Bryan Dorn VA Medical Center in South Carolina was notifying over 7,000 patients of a breach involving a stolen laptop. Now two of the veterans affected have filed a lawsuit over the breach. Additional details on the lawsuit, which was filed April 12, can be found here.
Fort McClellan Credit Union notifies customers after many cases of debit card fraud
Notice from the Fort McClellan Credit Union in Alabama alerts customers, but the breach was not the credit union’s breach. The breach involves an unnamed or as yet unidentified common point of compromise: ALERT – ALERT – ALERT LETTER TO CREDIT UNION MEMBERS – Debit Card Fraud During March, 2013, several debit card accounts issued…
Update: Biometric information of 14 lakh Aadhar applicants goes missing
So it seems it may not be 300,000 biometric national ID records lost, but 1.4 million….
TN: Confidential patient records found in former Lakeshore building (updated)
John Henry reports: Lakeshore Mental Health Institute stopped admitting patients in 2012, but some of the clients’ records were still at the facility Tuesday. Former Lakeshore employee Hilda Lindeman was walking through Lakeshore Park when she noticed old patients records were on the floor of an abandoned, easily accessible hospital building named Waterside. She showed…
NTT DoCoMo USA Site taken offline
Over the past week there has been huge attention to a leak of data from the Japanese mobile giant NTT DoCoMo in the name of it supporting CISPA. The news has been a big subject across many different Japanese sites after @LulzSecWiki released a dump of accounts that contain personal credentials. Today the same account has announce…
Hope Hospice notifies patients after email with PHI sent insecurely on two occasions
Hope Hospice officials say they recently discovered a possible information security breach after a routine check found that an employee had e-mailed a report of recent referral and admission activity to themselves through an unsecured channel. Information in the e-mail, which was sent in December and again in February, included names of over 800 Hope…