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UMC has patient privacy leak
Posted on November 20th, 2009 No commentsPrivate information about accident victims treated at University Medical Center has apparently been leaking for months, the Sun has learned, allegedly so ambulance-chasing attorneys could mine for clients.
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Stolen laptop may contain Social Security numbers of 574
Posted on November 11th, 2009 No commentsBloomsburg University data loss incident circa 2009-11-11
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Personally identifiable data for 4,500 students accessible via web
Posted on November 7th, 2009 No commentsChaminade University data loss incident circa 2009-11-06
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68,000 CalOptima Members at Risk in Data Breach
Posted on October 28th, 2009 No commentsAs many as 68,000 members of CalOptima, the Medicaid plan for Orange County, California, may be at risk of identity theft and fraud after several CDs containing their personal information disappeared while in transit, the agency reported.
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Breach exposes SSN numbers
Posted on October 28th, 2009 No commentsA serious data breach exposed the social security numbers of 2,920 people when 40 computers in the University of Wisconsin chemistry department were hacked over the last 18 months.
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UNC Latest College to Unveil Data Breach
Posted on October 5th, 2009 No commentsThe University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill this week began notifying the participants in a federally funded mammography study that their personal information may have been breached.
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2009 Rotman-TELUS Joint Study on Canadian IT Security Practices
Posted on October 2nd, 2009 No commentsThe cost of IT security breached jumps 97 percent. More than 600 Canadian IT security professionals participated in this year’s study, conducted by TELUS Security Labs and the Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto.
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Recycling project causes breach when social insurance numbers are redistributed in notebooks
Posted on September 29th, 2009 No commentsMemorial University of Newfoundland data loss incident circa 2009-09-29
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UMass: Chinese Could Be Behind Computer Breach
Posted on August 28th, 2009 No commentsA computer breach last fall at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst could have been caused by Chinese nationals, police said.
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Hackers gained access to UMass info
Posted on August 21st, 2009 No commentsNearly a year ago, hackers broke into a computer server that contained Social Security numbers and “a very limited amount of” credit card information for graduates of University of Massachusetts at Amherst, the university announced recently.
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