Collaborate Disseminate
Brian Soergel reports: On Aug. 31, employees of the Health and Wellness Clinic at 22005 76th Ave. W in Edmonds discovered that a storage room where patient records were kept was broken into, according to the clinic’s Jenni Ricker. The clinic offe… Continue reading WA: Patient records stolen from Edmonds clinic, recovered by police
FourthAmendment.com highlights a court opinion out of Massachusetts: Defendant is charged with accessing and taking his employer’s information for the purpose of setting up a rival company doing the same thing. His motion to suppress the information is… Continue reading Defendant had no reasonable expectation of privacy in his employer’s information he was accused of taking
Greg Priore, the person in charge of the rare book room at the Carnegie Library, stole from it for almost two decades before getting caught. It’s a perennial problem: trusted insiders have to be trusted…. Continue reading Insider Attack on the Carnegie Library
Greg Priore, the person in charge of the rare book room at the Carnegie Library, stole from it for almost two decades before getting caught.
It’s a perennial problem: trusted insiders have to be trusted.
Continue reading Insider Attack on the Carnegie Library
Nothando Mkhize reports that a pile of social grant applications were found on a street in Ndwedwe. The South African Post Office is investigating to see if they were stolen from a post office during a burglary last month. In a puzzlingly vague stateme… Continue reading ZA: Social grant applications found dumped in Ndedwe
Cub Pharmacies is the fourth chain I’ve seen that is reporting some theft of protected health information related to looters during protests in May. But when you read the descriptions of these events — these not just protesters protesting…. Continue reading Some Cub Pharmacies in Minnesota report breaches due to looters
Katherine Barton reports a long-awaited update to a 2018 incident where the investigation was delayed due to backlog: The Northwest Territories’ privacy commissioner’s investigation into medical records allegedly recovered at the Fort Simps… Continue reading Ca: Health records found at Fort Simpson dump may have been stolen: report
First it was Walmart disclosing that their pharmacies in stores in California and Chicago had suffered damage and theft by looters of medications ready for pickup with patient information on labels. Then it was CVS, who notified HHS that more than 21,0… Continue reading More pharmacy chains report HIPAA breaches linked to looting during protests
In April, 2017, Lifespan issued a statement disclosing a stolen laptop incident involving unencrypted protected health information. In at least two places in their statement they claim that they are committed to protecting the security and confidentia… Continue reading Lifespan Pays $1,040,000 to OCR to Settle Unencrypted Stolen Laptop Breach
So-called “porch pirates” are generally looking for packages that they can grab quickly and easily … if anything presents a challenge, they’ll just move on to another porch. It was with this in mind that the Snare Parcel Protection system was created.C… Continue reading Snare system is made to thwart porch pirates