Collaborate Disseminate
Paighten Harkins reports: Someone stole a laptop computer and a hard drive from the John A. Moran Eye Center, compromising the medical records of more than 600 of its patients. The theft occurred April 3, when someone took the laptop from locked storag… Continue reading Medical records for more than 600 patients stolen from Moran Eye Center
The rise of self-checkout has caused a corresponding rise in shoplifting…. Continue reading Supermarket Shoplifting
CBC News reports on a CBC breach: The CBC is warning more than 20,000 of its past, present and contract employees that their personal and financial information may be at risk after a break-in and the theft of computer equipment. “An intruder rece… Continue reading CBC warns past, current staff personal data may be at risk after break-in, theft of computer
Over $15 million was stolen from Mexican banks this month by thieves who created fake money orders and phony accounts to withdraw funds from dozens of branches, according to media reports. The criminals sent hundreds of fake money orders to move hundreds of thousands of pesos between at least five of Mexico’s biggest banks, whereafter accomplices quickly withdrew cash, Reuters reports. A vulnerability in software that was used to connect payment systems between the banks is thought to have been exploited by the thieves, allowing them to create the fake orders, Lorenza Martinez, head of operations for Mexico’s central bank told Reuters. Though initial estimates said that 300 million pesos ($15.2 million) had been stolen, other estimates have the amount closer to 400 million pesos ($20.3 million). “There’s no evidence that would allow us to say with certainty that this is over,” said Mexico’s central bank Governor Alejandro Diaz de […]
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From their press release: LaPorte & Associates, Inc. (“LaPorte”) today announced an incident involving potential unauthorized access to a laptop containing certain personal information. LaPorte is an insurance agency that provides, amo… Continue reading OR: LaPorte & Associates notifies clients of laptop theft
Danny Spewak reports: Fifty case files with sensitive information about Erie County constituents were potentially exposed to the public during two separate instances in 2017, according to a letter sent this week from the Department of Social Services t… Continue reading NY: 50 case files from Dept. of Social Services may have been exposed to data breach
The following substitute notice was posted on the center’s site. The incident has also been posted to HHS’s public breach tool, where it is currently listed twice – once under this name and once as Tiger Vision, LLC. In reading their … Continue reading Eye Care Surgery Center notifies 2,553 patients of laptop theft
For those keeping track: we had this incident filed solely under Fresno State, but had counted it in those incidents involving health/medical info. The incident had been included in our March 2018 analyses. — DataBreaches.net Boise State Univers… Continue reading A Notice Regarding a Recent Data Security Incident Affecting Boise State University students
From their public notice: On March 1, 2018, the offices of Complete Family Medicine, LLC were burglarized. Later the same day, Complete Family Medicine discovered that the perpetrators stole numerous items including a computer component of a medical de… Continue reading NE: Complete Family Medicine advises patients of burglary
Connor Sheets reports: A data breach may have resulted in the exposure of the personal and protected health information of patients of a medical lab chain with multiple Alabama locations. American Esoteric Laboratories announced Friday that it had beco… Continue reading Data breach could impact some patients of medical lab chain with Alabama locations