Feb 15
Some 1.7 million patients, staff members, contractors and vendors had their medical and other personal records from city hospitals in the Bronx stolen, the city’s Health and Hospitals Corporation said Friday. The affected hospitals were Jacobi Medical Center, North Central Bronx Hospital and two affiliated clinics. The “overwhelming majority” of those who had their data stolen were patients, the agency said.
http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/02/11/patients-computerized-records-st...
Jan 25
BOSTON -- Team 5 Investigates has learned that the personal information of as many as 1,300 current and former students at the Wentworth Institute of Technology was inadvertently put online.
http://www.thebostonchannel.com/news/26599566/detail.html
Jan 20
The Vermont Attorney General's office says a Connecticut-based health insurance company is ready to pay $55,000 to settle a complaint that it didn't inform customers that personal information had been lost along with an unencrypted computer hard drive.
http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D9KRGURG0.htm
Jan 13
An online retail site at University of Connecticut is warning thousands of customers that their billing information may have been hacked. The information was exposed when a hacker managed to breach the HuskeyDirect.com database, which has billing information for about 18,000 customers who use the site to buy Husky-branded sports items from the UConn Co-op. The Co-op acts as the university's bookstore but is run as a separate, member-owned non-profit group.
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/011311-uconn-data-breach.html
Jan 3
On December 21, KCI (Kinetic Concepts, Inc.) Health Care Compliance notified the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office of a security breach involving fraud. An employee in their Texas call center with authorized access to a database containing customers’ payment card data had reportedly misused the information of “several” customers to make purchases in the San Antonio area.
http://www.phiprivacy.net/?p=5395
Dec 24
Nearly four in five (79 percent) web users admit to using personal information and phrases in passwords, says Check Point.Research by the security firm, which created the ZoneAlarm software, revealed more than a quarter (26 percent) reuse the same passwords email, online banking or social networking accounts while 8 percent claim they copy passwords from online lists of 'good' passwords.
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2010/122010-79-of-web-user-put.html
Dec 23
A data breach affecting Twin America, the parent company of CitySights NY, potentially compromised an estimated 100,000 customers' personal details, including credit card numbers. According to a security breach notification letter sent to the New Hampshire attorney general, as required by that state's laws, attackers successfully exploited a Twin America Web server by using a SQL injection attack.
http://www.informationweek.com/news/security/attacks/showArticle.jhtml?articl...
Sep 10
Health Leaders Media - Lucile Salter Packard Children's Hospital at Stanford University has been fined $250,000 by California health officials for failing to report a breach of 532 patient medical records in connection with the theft of a hospital computer by an employee.
http://www.healthleadersmedia.com/content/TEC-256217/Hospital-Fined-250000-For-Not-Reporting-Data-Breach
Sep 9
Boston Globe - Missing computer files that possibly contained personal information on about 800,000 people connected to South Shore Hospital are “unrecoverable,’’ the hospital said yesterday after an investigation that also concluded there is little chance that individuals would be harmed by the data breach.
http://www.boston.com/business/healthcare/articles/2010/09/09/south_shore_hospital_says_missing_files_pose_little_threat/
Sep 7
The Washington Post - Criminal defense lawyers, press photographers and a university student are challenging the Obama administration's search policy permitting officers at U.S. borders to detain travelers' laptop computers and examine their contents even without suspecting the traveler of wrongdoing.