Jason Proctor reports: A Burnaby, B.C., man who spent the past year besieged by identity thieves says RCMP have linked his case to a major arrest. Paul Wright says criminals have repeatedly managed to change personal information on his TransUnion Credit Bureau profile. One of the addresses placed on his file was the site of…
Case Western Reserve notifies 600 alumni of data breach involving Social Security numbers
Earlier today, a breach report was submitted to DataLossDB.org involving Case Western Reserve University in Ohio. The April 4th notice, submitted by one of those affected, indicated that 600 people had names and Social Security numbers on two laptops that had been stolen. Although the university is offering affected individuals free identity theft protection services,…
Thomas Jefferson University Hospitals Notify Patients Of Security Breach
ID Experts alerts us to this latest x-ray breach incident: Thomas Jefferson University Hospitals Notify Patients Of Security Breach, Affected Patients Offered Extensive Identity Protection Thomas Jefferson University Hospitals (TJUH) has notified approximately 600 patients that there was a theft of radiology registration documents containing personal information for services provided between February 4 and…
Seton medical cards with personal data go astray
Mary Ann Roser reports: A company working with the Seton Healthcare Family mistakenly mailed to the wrong addresses about 555 Seton Health Plan member cards that included names and birth dates, Seton said today. The March 9 mailing by HealthLOGIX of Troy, Mich., came to Seton’s attention a week later when members of the Medicaid health plan called about…
Utah Dept. of Health breach affects more than previously identified
Marjorie Cortez provides an update on a breach that started out bad enough last week, and got a lot worse: Some 280,000 people had their Social Security numbers listed in state health data stolen from a computer server last week, state officials announced Monday, calling the data breach the largest in state history. Another 500,000 victims…
Utah Dept. of Health hacked, over 500,000 700,000 affected and the number’s growing?
Marjorie Cortez provides an update on a breach that started out bad enough last week, and just got a lot worse: Some 280,000 people had their Social Security numbers listed in state health data stolen from a computer server last week, state officials announced Monday, calling the data breach the largest in state history. Another…