Collaborate Disseminate
CTV reports: The Middlesex-London Health Unit (MLHU) is defending itself over a privacy breach earlier this year when papers and two computer hard drives containing personal information and personal health information were left behind at its former hea… Continue reading Ca: 2 hard drives and documents with personal health info left behind during MLHU move
Alex Balinger reports: Dr Richard Freeman has admitted losing rider blood data from a third laptop, this time after the UCI requested information about riders from the Giro d’Italia and Tour de France in 2011. Freeman is currently facing a medical trib… Continue reading Dr Richard Freeman admits losing rider blood data from a third computer
This may help some Texas school districts and other public agencies in Texas. I usually don’t post press releases that promote commercial services, but am making an exception because I like the idea that a state is trying to provide more proacti… Continue reading Texas Teams Up with FireEye to Tackle Ransomware
Melanie Waddell reports: Morgan Stanley is embroiled in a class-action lawsuit over two separate data breaches involving missing equipment that exposed clients’ personal identifiable information — including Social Security and account numbers — to th… Continue reading Morgan Stanley Is Sued Over Data Breaches Tied to Missing Equipment
Jed Horowitz reports: Former and current Morgan Stanley customers have filed a putative class-action lawsuit alleging negligence and invasion of privacy over the firm’s failure to properly scrub decommissioned hardware of personal information such as s… Continue reading Morgan Stanley Hit with Class Lawsuit Over Alleged Data Breaches
I read relatively few reports of breaches due to weather-related events, floods, or fires, but when I do see them, I try to post them. This one involves a business associate that provides secure records services. A tornado struck their building in Tenn… Continue reading MO: Poplar Bluff Regional Medical Center notifying patients after tornado hits secure records service provider
John Pring reports: A nursing home is facing an investigation into a “very serious” breach of data protection laws, after detailed personal information about its 36 disabled residents was apparently found in the street. The four-page document contains … Continue reading UK: Nursing home probed after residents’ personal details are found in the street
Catalin Cimpanu reports: The Dutch government said it lost two external hard disk storage devices that contained the personal data of more than 6.9 million organ donors. The hard drives stored electronic copies of all donor forms filed with the Dutch D… Continue reading Dutch government loses hard drives with data of 6.9 million registered donors
Carmel Robinson reports that patient records containing patients’ names, their age, social history as well as a brief medical history and why they had been admitted to hospital were found on a public road by a man walking with his child: The pati… Continue reading Patients records from Craigavon Area Hospital found on public road
CRC News reports: The Canada Revenue Agency lost a bin containing Canadians’ tax information after the truck hired to transport the documents was involved in a highway accident earlier this year. The incident was just one of almost 150 privacy br… Continue reading CRA loses box of ‘sensitive’ taxpayer information in truck accident