Newcastle Youth Offending Team breached the Data Protection Act by failing to encrypt a laptop containing personal data which was later stolen, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) said today. The laptop – which contained personal data relating to 100 young people and sensitive personal data on 10 people – was reported stolen from a contractor’s…
Hundreds of medical records found in Yokota servicemember's home
Seth Robson reports: YOKOTA AIR BASE, Japan — Air Force officials have sent warnings to 593 people to be on the lookout for signs of identity theft after their medical records were found at a servicemember’s home on Yokota Air Base. The 374th Airlift Wing announced last week that the documents — which included the…
FL: Ocala Police Officer Arrested In Identity Theft Scheme
An Ocala police officer and several other people were arrested in an elaborate identity theft scheme, police said. Investigators said officer Dana Brown collected the personal information of about 149 drivers so that others in the scheme could open 184 bank accounts to cash fraudulent tax return checks. Police said Brown accessed the information in…
Louisiana law firm thinks it’s okay to dump records in trash, unshredded? Seriously, folks?
Don’t lawyers have a duty of confidentiality – apart from any state laws that might apply – about disposal of records with personal information? I am, well, frankly annoyed at all the news reports I’ve seen about lawyers or law firms not disposing of records securely. Here’s yet another one, this time from Louisiana: Below…
FL: I-Team: Tampa VA lost private medical photos of breast cancer patients
The I-Team has uncovered hundreds of thousands dollars’ worth of expensive equipment and property at VA hospitals in Tampa and Bay Pines has been lost or stolen in the last two years. The list includes televisions, lap tops computers, and microscopes. But the most serious loss was not the most expensive item. A camera, used…
Ca: Steele uncovers major medical privacy breach
How not to write a disclosure letter: The medical records of 450 people have been compromised after a laptop and a USB drive containing personal information were lost by a medical student. Carolina Becerra received a letter from Vancouver Coastal Health dated Oct. 6 stating that her hospital records from Vancouver General Hospital went missing…