Collaborate Disseminate
BBC reports: Personal information belonging to dozens of vulnerable people receiving government-funded home care on the Isle of Man has been lost. Paper records of phone numbers, names and addresses of 33 adults had been “mislaid”, the Depa… Continue reading IOM: Manx government loses home care residents’ personal data
Josh Bavas reports: Queensland Health is investigating how a large parcel of patients’ medical documents, earmarked for destruction, were lost on a busy Brisbane road. A staff member came across the files last Thursday on Abbotsford Road in Bowen… Continue reading AU: Queensland Health launches investigation after medical files found on busy Brisbane road
Catherine Shanahan reports: Documents with sensitive patient data identifying children and adults, details of surgical procedures, and reasons for missing appointments have been found on a busy city-centre street in Cork. The highly personalised inform… Continue reading Sensitive patient records found on Cork city street
Holmes Chan reports: A government-run dental clinic has lost an appointment book that contains the personal information of about 383 patients. The Department of Health revealed the incident on Thursday, saying that the Li Po Chun Dental Clinic in Tai K… Continue reading Hong Kong gov’t dental clinic loses personal information of nearly 400 patients
Ben Leahy reports: A Gisborne physiotherapist who lost more than 100 patient files from her practice has been found guilty of misconduct due to the risk to her patients’ privacy. Jane Moore committed the privacy breaches from 2012 to 2015 while w… Continue reading NZ: Privacy breach: More than 100 Hauora Tairāwhiti patient files in Gisborne missing
Asia Fields reports: Seattle University is warning that the names and Social Security numbers of more than 2,000 people could be exposed after a university-issued laptop was lost last month. Files containing information for 2,102 current and former fac… Continue reading Seattle University laptop containing 2,000 Social Security numbers lost
Skye Ryan reports: A privacy breach of BC Pension Corporation data has left thousands vulnerable to identity theft and those who were impacted wonder why it has taken the corporation two months to notify them. The breach was confirmed Jan. 28 but victi… Continue reading Sensitive data from 8,000 people exposed in privacy breach at BC Pension Corporation after microfiche goes missing during office move.
Steve Marroni reports: The personal information of more than 24,000 clients of the Cremation Society of Pennsylvania may have been compromised. While officials do not believe any identities have actually been stolen, the organization’s corporate headqu… Continue reading 24K Cremation Society of Pa. customers notified of possible loss of personal information
Joanne Carroll reports: A health board employee is under investigation after “misplacing” hundreds of patients’ medical information – some of which are still missing. The Canterbury and West Coast District Health Board only became aw… Continue reading NZ: Patient documents missing, reportedly lost in ‘a gust of wind’
Someone asked me today about the lack of W-2 phishing reports or W-2 incidents that we’ve seen so far this year. I responded that I hadn’t really had time to research W-2 attacks yet, but a reader, “DLOW,” has now kindly submi… Continue reading 42,000 SLCC students’ tax documents were lost when unencrypted drive fell out of mailed envelope