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Staten Island University Hospital notifies patients of December theft

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2008-05-01 15:09:25 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...December contained personal information about 88,000 patients who have been treated at Staten Island University Hospital Reference URL Staten Island Advance Staten Island Advance (Video Report Credit Glenn Nyback, Staten Island Advance Response From the online sources cited above STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Computer equipment stolen from an...
 
Tags: sensitive personal information, personal information, information, information security, information security breaches, hospital, island university hospital, protect patient information, island
 
 
 
 
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Spam snowballs in December: report

2008-01-08 16:20:42 by Editor in ElectricNews.net - SECURITY
 
The volume of spam e-mails increased dramatically in the month of December, as spammers mounted their traditional end-of-year assault on inboxes
 
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Stolen Wendy's laptop affects 1,092 employees

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2008-01-03 14:08:27 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...December 1, 2007. The laptop contained sensitive personal information belonging to 1,092 Wendy's employees including Social Security numbers and salary information. The employee reported the theft to Wendy's on December 3rd, and Wendy's reported the breach on December 21st Reference URL New Hampshire Attorney General breach notification ...
 
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Laptop stolen from Minnesota Department of Commerce vendor

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2007-12-29 00:01:21 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...December 6, 2007 a laptop computer containing the personal information of 219 Minnesota residents was stolen from an employee of Promissor Corporation in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Promissor is a vendor used by the Minnesota Department of Commerce to manage licensing data for the real estate, mortgage, and debt collection industries in...
 
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Stockport Primary Care Trust flash drive goes missing

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2008-01-21 09:44:46 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...December, 2007. The flash drive was on a lanyard around her neck when it was lost and it contained senstive personal information belonging to patients of the trust Reference URL Stockport Primary Care Trust NHS Press Release dated 1/18/08 Manchester Evening News Story ComputerWeekly News Story Report Credit Amanda Crook, Manchester Evening...
 
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Hundreds of WiseBuys customers are victims of credit card fraud

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2008-04-26 21:01:56 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...December at the Canton Wisebuys store, according to Canton Village Police Reference URL Watertown Daily News WWTI Channel 50 News TWEAN News Channel of Syracuse Report Credit WWTI Channel 50 News Response From the online sources cited above CANTON Police are investigating hundreds of reports of thefts of credit and debit card numbers...
 
Tags: credit card, credit, wisebuys, credit union, credit union absorbs, credit issuer time, canton wisebuys store, report credit, credit card companies
 
 
 
 
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Breach at UCSF gets leadership response

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2008-05-31 10:34:08 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...December 2, 2007. It seems likely that the unusual traffic may have started on or about December 2, 2007. Why the time gap between presence and detection The computer was immediately removed from the network to prevent further access UCSF conducted a thorough investigation into the incident to assess how this breach occurred and whether any...
 
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Citizens Advice stolen laptop was encrypted

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2007-12-13 13:37:02 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...December 5th, 2007 and mainly affects clients from the Belfast area. According to Citizens Advice, the laptop was encrypted Reference URL News story at The Register (UK U.TV News Report Report Credit U.TV Response From the online sources cited above A laptop containing client information has been stolen from the car of an employee of...
 
Tags: laptop encryption, laptop encryption software, advice, encryption, encryption product, citizens advice, laptop, sought advice, personal data
 
 
 
 
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Pennsylvania Department of Aging seniors affected by stolen laptop

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2008-01-03 17:18:52 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...December 5, 2007 Reference URL Patriot News Story (original Patriot News Story (updated Report Credit Jan Murphy, Patriot News Response From the online sources cited above A state Department of Aging-owned laptop computer containing personal information on nearly 21,000 senior citizens was stolen from a Johnstown home during a Dec. 5...
 
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Roboticsonline.com customer orders compromised

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2008-01-04 14:51:08 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...December 10th, 2007 a "computer hacker' gained unauthorized access to the administration pages of the roboticsonline.com web site and as a result gained access to online customer orders including credit card information Reference URL The New Hampshire State Attorney General breach notification Report Credit The New Hampshire State Attorney...
 
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