Customers for more than a hundred car dealerships across the US were put at...
Zack Whittaker reports: If you bought a car in the last few years, there’s a good chance your personal information may have found its way to the open internet. Names, addresses, phone numbers and...
View ArticleOpen Database Exposes Millions of Job Seekers’ Personal Information
Joseph Cox reports: On Thursday, it emerged that an outsourcing company named Capegemini had left a database containing sensitive information on the open internet, exposing the names, contact details,...
View ArticleIndiana Health Coverage Program members notified of breach
HP Enterprise Services LLC (HPE), a Medicaid fiscal agent for the Indiana Health Coverage Program, recently notified HHS of the theft of 1,235 members’ information. The theft was discovered on...
View ArticleTX: Austin Pulmonary Consultants notifies patients after new cleaners throw...
It’s been a while since I’ve seen any reports of cleaning contractors accidentally disposing of patient records intended for shredding, but a recent report by Austin Pulmonary Consultants may be a...
View ArticleHorizon says privacy breach could affect up to 170K N.J. customers
Susan K. Livio reports that a vendor error has affected as many as 170,000 BCBS members in New Jersey: Some benefit letters mailed to as many as 170,000 Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey...
View ArticleMore Rehab Billing Solutions clients notify their patients of exposed PHI
Back in September, DataBreaches.net reported on an exposed MongoDB database that had been discovered by MacKeeper security researcher Chris Vickery. The database contained protected health information...
View ArticleBriar Hill Management notifies 2,000 nursing facilities residents of lost laptop
Notice of Privacy Event at Briar Hill Management Briar Hill Management of Ridgeland, Mississippi provides management services for skilled nursing facilities in the State. The company takes resident...
View ArticleCommand Marketing Innovations Reports Printing Error Impacting Horizon Blue...
The vendor involved in the recent breach reported on this site involving Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey has now issued its own press release: GARFIELD, N.J., Nov. 23, 2016 — Command...
View ArticleAetna division notifying thousands of missing CD
Mike D. Smith reports: Aetna is notifying about 3,000 Texas policyholders affected by a “privacy incident” after a CD containing personal information never arrived at its intended destination. […] The...
View ArticleAre some patients still first finding out about Ambucor breach?
How many clients of Ambucor Health Solutions – and how many patients – have been affected by an insider wrongdoing incident at the business associate earlier this year? We still don’t know, but here’s...
View ArticleOptumHealth New Mexico notifies 2,006 members of breach
On Nov. 17, OptumHealth New Mexico began notifying members that a flash drive, mailed by an unnamed vendor on September 16, was discovered on September 26 to have been lost in the postal mail. From...
View ArticleNevada Court Says Juror ID Information Compromised
LasVegasNOW reports that an employee of A&B Printing & Mailing LLC, a printing company the courts use to send out jury summons, may have engaged in wrongdoing: Court officials said Thursday...
View ArticleMassive Australian Taxation Office data loss feared after Hewlett Packard...
Fleur Anderson and Paul Smith report: The Australian Taxation Office has restored access to some of its online services, but concerns remain that large amounts of data have been lost after it suffered...
View ArticleData breach affects almost 400,000 Community Health Plan members (UPDATE2)
Bob Young reports: Almost 400,000 current and former members of the Community Health Plan of Washington have had personal information, including Social Security numbers, exposed in a data breach. The...
View ArticleUS government subcontractor leaks confidential military personnel data
Charlie Osborne reports: A Pentagon subcontractor has exposed reams of highly sensitive details belonging to active military healthcare professionals online, some of which hold top-secret security...
View ArticleSg: Cellar Door, Web host fined over data protection breach after customer...
K.C. Vijayan reports: The Cellar Door, a well-known local seller of gourmet products, has been fined $5,000 for failing to protect the personal data of some of its customers and users from being posted...
View ArticleSummit Reinsurance Services breach affected 19,000
The Summit Reinsurance Services ransomware breach, noted previously on this site, is beginning to attract more attention. First State Update reports: As a result of multiple consumer complaints, the...
View Article2016: Healthcare data breaches in review, Part 2
This is the second part of a look-back at 2016 and a commentary on why we need to analyze breaches differently if we really want to become more proactive in preventing them. Part 1 of this article can...
View ArticleDutch Cops to Warn 20,000 of Email Account Hack
Phil Muncaster reports: Police in the Netherlands are set to email 20,000 possible fraud victims urging them to change their account details, after discovering their credentials had been stolen by a...
View ArticleMN: PrimeWest Health notifies members of Summit Reinsurance incident
Another entity affected by the Summit Reinsurance ransomware attack in March, 2016 is first notifying individuals of the incident. See this report about PrimeWest Health. The insurer notified HHS of...
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