Steve Snyder reports in the Lebanon Daily News that Lebanon Internal Medicine Associates, P. C. of Pennsylvania has notified patients of a breach that occurred after a storm resulted in office flooding. The breach involved a computer that was used to support the practice’s on-site lab and had wound up under water following Tropical Storm…
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Update to the SAIC/TRICARE breach
From TRICARE: Letters are being mailed from Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) to affected military clinic and hospital patients regarding a data breach involving personally identifiable and protected health information (PII/PHI). On Sept. 14, 2011, SAIC reported the loss of backup tapes containing electronic health care records used in the military health system (MHS) to…
UK: London's commercial trash contains lots of confidential data
Somewhat self-serving study, but the results are pretty much what I’d expect. In fact, I’m surprised that they didn’t find more: According to a study commissioned by the National Association for Information Destruction (NAID), Phoenix, many London-area organizations engage in the casual disposal of sensitive personal information. NAID commissioned the study to determine whether organization…
Healthcare most breached industry in 2011? Not by my analyses.
The following was originally posted to PHIprivacy.net. The carousel image for this post reflects 2011 statistics from DataLossDB and is used with permission. Note that healthcare sector breaches account for a smaller percentage of total breaches reported in 2011 compared to 2010 while business sector breaches account for a larger percentage of total breaches compared to…
Virginia Commonwealth University Breach results in data of 170k people leaked
Virginia Commonwealth University will hire an outside cybersecurity consultant to examine its information technology system after a computer server containing personal data on 176,567 people was hacked last month. The university has "very good forensic evidence" that the information was not accessed or targeted for identity theft, said Mark D. Willis, VCU’s chief information officer….
Healthcare most breached industry in 2011? Not by my analyses.
To his credit, Dave Kennedy tried to analyze breaches based on Privacy Rights Clearinghouse data. PRC’s database begins with 2005 breaches and allows interested individuals to sort by year, breach type, and sector. After pulling out the numbers for 2010 and 2011 to compare to previous years, Kennedy reports that healthcare was/is the most breached…