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Mari A. Schaefer reports: About 1,000 patients at Penn Medicine are receiving letters saying a computer with some of their personal information on it was stolen. A laptop containing patient files was reported stolen from a car at the King of Prussia Ma… Continue reading Penn Medicine computer with patient info stolen
TNN reports: One out of the two laptops, used for entering patients’ records, was stolen from the fourth floor of a private hospital in Erandwane on Friday afternoon. Prasad Wahal, a hospital employee, lodged a complaint the with Alankar police. … Continue reading Laptop stolen from hospital in Erandwane
Dane Sager Kelly reports on low-tech theft of identity info: Police are asking for public assistance in identifying and locating a man in connection with the theft of personal information at a Holiday Inn on Nov. 28. […] On Nov. 28, at approximat… Continue reading Guest’s personal information stolen from Romulus hotel, police seek culprit
Here is yet another reminder of (1) why you don’t leave devices in your car with critical information on them, and (2) why you need backups of mission critical data. Doug Johnson reports: LINCOLN — A Lincoln charity is desperate for help af… Continue reading Lincoln Nonprofit’s Laptop Containing Vital Information Stolen in Car Break-In
So it’s the end of 2017 but we’re still hearing about laptops being stolen from locked cars and that the devices were password-protected? If the U.S. Education Department started cracking down in terms of enforcement, might it make any dif… Continue reading Louisiana State University notifying 5,500 former and current students after laptop stolen from employee’s car
From a notification WHS-Greene posted on their web site: It is with regret that we inform you that Washington Health System Greene recently experienced a security breach when an external hard drive for the Bone Densitometry machine, that contained pati… Continue reading Washington Health System Greene notifies 4,145 patients after hard drive with PHI was discovered stolen
Their press release: December 12 – Franciscan Physician Network of Illinois (FPN Illinois) and Specialty Physicians of Illinois, LLC (formerly known as Wellgroup Health Partners, LLC, “SPI”) are notifying patients of a privacy breach. On Novembe… Continue reading Franciscan Physician Network of Illinois and Specialty Physicians of Illinois notify patients of payment records lost or stolen from storage facility
Prawesh Lama reports: A computer’s hard disk along with its CPU was stolen from Law Faculty in Delhi University on December 3 — the day officials started compiling the attendance of faculty members and that of over 7,000 law students. The law faculty’s… Continue reading Hard disk mysteriously stolen after DU compiled attendance of law students
A stealthy group of Russian-speaking hackers has been targeting financial organizations (banks, credit unions, lenders) in the US and Russia, stealing money and documentation that could be used for new attacks. The targets The group’s operations … Continue reading MoneyTaker’s stealthy hacking spree spread from US to Russia
Cynthia McCormick reports on the resolution of a lawsuit stemming from a laptop theft in 2014. The breach was previously reported on this site: Hundreds of Cape Cod students — many with special needs — were put at risk of identity fraud and theft whe… Continue reading Cape Cod students affected by Medicaid billing vendor’s data breach