A transcription service posted the records of about 15,000 patients of a hospital, online, without password protection. Here's the story: http://www.bostonglobe.com/business/2014/04/29/boston-medical-center-fires-vendor-after-data-breach/jboHN1Aq1x2JAE5amyEHiO/story.html … [Read more...] about Transcription Service Exposes HIPAA Data
An IRS employee took home personal info on 20K workers. Too many issues to list in this story: http://news.msn.com/us/irs-employee-took-home-personal-info-on-20k-workers … [Read more...] about Insider Threat: IRS Employee
UC San Francisco announced a burglary involving unencrypted computers that contained personal and health information. Here's the press release: https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2014/03/112556/computer-theft-uc-san-francisco … [Read more...] about University breach-of-the-day: UC San Francisco
Extortionist posted University data. Here's the story: http://releases.jhu.edu/2014/03/07/server-breach/ … [Read more...] about University breach-of-the-day: Johns Hopkins
Estimates are 290,000 current and former students and about 780 faculty and staff are affected. Details here: http://ndus.edu/data/ … [Read more...] about University breach-of-the-day: North Dakota University