The Consumerist seems to have had a security breach. Their blog posts are light on details, though: On July 15, they wrote: As some Consumerist readers have noted, the site has been down twice in the past week and we promised an explanation, which follows. We first took the site down late Wednesday afternoon, when…
Dental practices feel some pain following breach by business partner
Both River Arch Dental and Hamner Square Dental sent patients a letter on July 16 about a breach that occurred when a business partner’s employee violated their security protocols: We are writing to inform you of the following incident and the steps we have taken and are taking to respond to it. On May 10,…
Louisville dental assistant copied medical records – Police
WDRB reports: Police say they’ve arrested a Louisville woman for copying the medical records of several patients of a dental office back in 2005. Police say Tanya Hubbard was working as a dental assistant in Dec. 26, 2005 (when she was 26) when she made copies of medical records belonging to 23 patients. According to…
Ca: Prince Albert man concerned about privacy breach
Sarah Rolles reports: Dallas Inglehart from Prince Albert received a concerning letter recently. Wednesday evening Inglehart returned home and opened a letter from the Prince Albert Parkland Health Region that advised him of a privacy breach stating that some of his personal health information had in fact been compromised. The letter stated that on March…
Elections Ontario breach update
Two memory sticks with some information on voters registered with Elections Ontario are missing because personnel did not follow protocol. Earliest reports on the breach involving Elections Ontario said that the data were encrypted. Later reports are now saying that the data were NOT encrypted (see official press statement) and that up to 2.4 million may…
HHS updates breach tool
HHS has added 17 incidents to its breach tool. Some of the incidents we already knew about, but here are the ones that are new to me or that add new details: Awklein ,CA,,”2,000″,2/1/2011,Theft,Other,6/8/2012,, I cannot find any information on this breach via a Google search. “Stephen Haggard, DPM Podiatry”,WA,,”1,597″,3/4/2012,Theft,Network Server,6/8/2012,, Dr. Haggard published a…