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The Canadian Press reports: Alberta Health Services (AHS) says a computer hard drive that contained the personal health information of about 650 patients has been missing since August. The agency says the external drive vanished from a cardiac outpati… Continue reading Records of 650 patients on missing computer hard drive: Alberta Health Services
James Fyfe and Edward O’Driscoll report: A computer holding hundreds of meeting and interview transcripts has been stolen from the Commerce Commission. The computer belonged to an external provider and was taken last week, the Commerce Commission… Continue reading NZ: Confidential information at risk after computer stolen from Commerce Commission
TNN reports that 72 sacks full of vital documents of citizens have gone missing from AMC’s urban health centre in Vejalpur. This is one of those data breaches that make you just … groan. The documents had gotten wet in June due to a leak in… Continue reading Ahmedabad: 72 sacks of ID documents stolen from health centre
Jijo Jacob reports: The data theft at INS Vikrant, India’s first Indigenous Aircraft Carrier (IAC), has taken a national security dimension with reports saying that the espionage angle cannot be ruled out. The theft of computer hard discs, random… Continue reading Who stole data from Aircraft Carrier INS Vikrant? Espionage angle in Cochin Shipyard probe
Mark Niesse Arielle Kass report: Two computers that are used to check in voters were stolen from a west Atlanta precinct hours before polls opened Tuesday for a city school board election. [..] The express poll computers contain names, addresses, birth… Continue reading Check-in computers stolen in Atlanta hold statewide voter data
Megan Hickey reports: Loyola University Medical Center confirmed that a camera containing the autopsy photos of several patients over a period of more than a year was stolen from the hospital’s pathology lab, and the personal health information of thos… Continue reading Camera Containing Autopsy Photos Stolen From Loyola University Medical Center Pathology Lab
Canadian Press reports: The Northwest Territories is facing a lawsuit over a stolen laptop containing medical files that could include information on every resident in the territory. […] The lawsuit stems from a government-owned laptop that was s… Continue reading Ca: NWT faces lawsuit over over 2018 health data breach that could affect all residents
Andy Frain Services has reported a breach to the California Attorney General’s Office. The breach reportedly occurred on May 2, and their letter to those affected begins: We are writing with important information regarding a recent security incid… Continue reading Andy Frain Services reports stolen laptop, but were they also hacked?
Raymond Yeung reports: Hong Kong’s top medical school has expressed its “deepest apologies” after a laptop computer containing the personal data of more than 3,600 patients was suspected to have been stolen, causing a massive data breach. A police inve… Continue reading University of Hong Kong’s medicine department ‘sorry’ for patient data breach
NBC reports: More than 10,000 patients whom the FDNY EMS had previously treated and or transported were notified that their personal information may have been compromised after an employee’s personal external hard drive was lost last March, according t… Continue reading FDNY EMS Notifies More Than 10,000 Patients of Possible Data Breach