Child and Family Services of New Hampshire, a non-profit agency, recently notified 23 residents of New Hampshire after their client files were stolen from a secure area in the agency’s main office in Manchester. The files were stolen sometime between March 15 and March 18, and the theft was detected on March 19. Unfortunately, neither…
Updates to HHS's breach tool includes yet another Florida hospital whose patient data were stolen
An update to HHS’s breach tool this week adds 16 more incidents to their counter, although two of the entries appear to be for the same incident. Significantly, the list includes yet another Florida hospital report of theft of patient data, presumably for tax refund fraud or other fraud. In this case, though, it was not…
Eastern Health Authority Discloses Two Breaches Involving Briefcases Stolen from Employees' Cars
Eastern Health advised today that it has experienced an accidental breach of privacy of 63 of its clients. The accidental breach occurred when the briefcase of an employee was stolen from a vehicle while left unattended for approximately 10 minutes on the evening of April 17, 2013. The briefcase contained one client chart and a…
‘Hacker’ convicted by US court despite never hacking
Matt Brian has an interesting take on the conviction of David Nosal, which I reported yesterday on this blog: After more than a year of bouncing between appeals courts, the hacking case involving David Nosal has ended with a conviction. Wired reports that Nosal was yesterday found guilty of conspiracy, stealing trade secrets, and violating the Computer Fraud and Abuse…
Sensitive medical records found in Londonderry garden
Meanwhile, back in the U.K., BBC reports confidential patient records wer An investigation has been launched into how confidential medical records were found in a garden in Londonderry. The Western Health Trust has confirmed that the documents contained “sensitive personal information” and said it had reported the breach to the Information Commissioner’s office. The trust…
News Group chief responds to Berkeley privacy breach
Emile Raguso has more on a case where a response to a freedom of information request exposed Social Security numbers on 11,000 municipal employees: Following this week’s disclosure by Berkeley city staff that roughly 11,000 municipal employee social security numbers had been erroneously divulged to a local media outlet in March, the media outlet’s managing editor said…