Stacey Kirk reports: Confidential patient files have been stolen from a MidCentral District Health Board staff member’s car and the board is calling for the documents to be returned. The car was broken into on Pascal St, Palmerston North, some distance from Palmerston North Hospital, but MidCentral spokesman Dennis Geddis said it was “common procedure”…
Honda Canada notifies customers of breach (UPDATED)
A DataBreaches.net reader alerted me that Honda Canada has been notifying some customers of a breach. According to a May 13th letter he received (French version, pdf), a breach involving unauthorized access of the My Honda (myhonda.honda.ca) and My Acura (myacura.acura.ca) web sites was detected in March 2011 and affected customers who were on certain…
(Update2) Lost Phoenix Ireland data tape had details of 62,000 customers
More than 6 weeks after news of the breach broke, Phoenix Ireland is now confirming that a breach thought to have occurred almost one year ago involved personal and financial data: Phoenix Ireland has confirmed that it has lost a data tape containing the personal and bank account details of 62,000 customers and potential customers….
(follow-up) Co-operative Life Planning signs undertaking after personal details of 82,000 exposed on Web
As a follow-up to a breach posted previously on this blog, a press release from the UK ICO: Co-operative Life Planning (CLP) breached the Data Protection Act by failing to ensure a contractor followed the company’s security procedures, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) said today. The incident led to personal details relating to 82,000 customers…
NC: Charges mount in Asheville credit card fraud case
And yet another where we don’t yet know how data were stolen or acquired. Sabian Warren reports: Police working in conjunction with the U.S. Secret Service have filed additional charges against a Florida man who police say is involved in a multistate crime operation involving the theft of credit card information. Abe Nassar, 39, of…
GA: Camden sheriff among victims of recent debit card fraud
There have been a rash of debit/credit card fraud reports in the media recently. In none of the situations has the point of compromised yet been identified, but I’m including them on this blog when I come across them in the hopes that one day, we will find out what happened. Here’s another one from…