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MidState Medical Center is investigating a data breach involving a hospital worker misplacing an external hard drive that stored data on 93,500 patients...

As reported in BNA's Privacy Law Watch, on April 1, 2011, a New York law went in effect requiring manufacturers of certain electronic equipment, including devices that have hard drives capable of storing personal information...

There were stories yesterday like this one at Health Leaders Media and this one at the LA Times reporting that California-based insurer Health Net has suffered yet another massive data breach, this time involving 1.9 million current and past customers, health-care providers and employees...

Taxpayers' Social Security numbers, confidential child abuse reports and personnel reviews of New Jersey workers nearly went to the highest bidder after the state sent surplus computers out for auction...

Julian Assange may have needed a mole inside the Army to get sensitive government documents for WikiLeaks, but thanks to the lax IT procedures at NASA, it looks like he may have only needed an eBay account...

The University of Arizona says they've lost a computer hard drive containing information on thousands of students...

A computer hard drive containing personal information for 43,000 students, alumni and prospective students is missing from a central Pennsylvania college...

Health Net faces a $375,000 fine for a security breach last year at the insurer's Northeast headquarters in Shelton...

Keystone Mercy Health Plan and AmeriHealth Mercy Health Plan said Tuesday that a hard drive containing the names, addresses, and health information of 280,000 Medicaid members in Pennsylvania has been lost...

In a response to an MoJ call for evidence, the ICO says it supports prison sentences for serious breaches of the Data Protection Act...

An interesting story on last Sunday's 60 Minutes program showcased a pervasive foreign spying threat against the United States...

Covered entities and business associates reporting breaches of unsecured personal health information (PHI) affecting 500 or more individuals...

A computer hard drive containing confidential information on thousands of state Medicaid clients is missing...

St. Luke's Health System has notified several thousand hospital employees in Boise, Wood River...

A California-based health insurance company has agreed to pay Connecticut $250,000 for losing a disk drive...

Proton Data Security announces the release of its newest automatic degausser, the model T-1.5...

American Air parent says worker data compromised...

Proton Data Security, has been named a finalist in the Computers and Peripherals category for the American Technology Awards...

The vulnerability of information stored on a computer hard drive has been recognized as a security risk for some time, but did you know that digital photocopiers and high-end laser printers also include a hard drive which can store and log all of your activity?

The Roanoke City School system sold computers with employees personal information still on them...

A compact disc that contains personally identifiable information for about 7,500 federal employees has been reported lost by the Interior Department's shared services center...

The Medical Center at Bowling Green is notifying 5,418 patients of a breach resulting from the theft of an unencrypted portable hard drive stored in a locked area...

At a warehouse in New Jersey, 6,000 used copy machines sit ready to be sold. CBS News chief investigative correspondent Armen Keteyian reports almost every one of them holds a secret...

Proton's T-4, the newest and currently most powerful degausser on the NSA Evaluated Products List, received another IT endorsement when it was awarded a "Best of FOSE 2010" award at the FOSE conference in Washington, DC on March 24th...

Washington Gov. Christine Gregoire has signed legislation into law that encourages financial institutions to comply with that data security requirements -- or face potential liability if a data breach occurs...

SOUTHFIELD, Mich. Hospital Hard Drive Missing...

The Information Commissioner will be able to issue fines of up to half a million pounds to businesses that break the Data Protection Act, from today (April 6)...

The Educational Credit Management Corp. reported the theft of portable media with Social Security numbers, names, addresses and other information belonging to some 3.3 million people...

Massachusetts has just put into effect a strict data security law - and don't think that you can ignore it because your business is located outside the Bay State. The law, which went into effect March 1, states that all companies that maintain personal information on Massachusetts citizens must conduct an internal security review, have a documented Information Security program (ISP), and set up clear security policies...

A break-in one evening last October at a shopping mall in Chattanooga, Tennessee, is proving expensive for BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee...

The Arkansas National Guard is warning current and former soldiers their personal data could be at risk because a computer hard drive with information about them is missing...

A data breach at the National Archives and Records Administration is more serious than previously believed. It involved sensitive personal information of 250,000 Clinton administration staff members, job applicants and White House visitors, as well as the Social Security number of at least one daughter of former Vice President Al Gore...

PGP Corporation, a global leader in enterprise data protection, and the Ponemon Institute, a privacy and information management research firm, today announced results of the fifth annual U.S. Cost of a Data Breach Study...

A hard drive with seven years of personal and medical information on about 1.5 million Health Net customers, including 446,000 in Connecticut, was lost six months ago and was first reported Wednesday, state and company officials said...

The Corps of Engineers is investigating the recent loss of an external hard drive that could pose identify theft problems for as many as 60,000 soldiers and Army civilians. Maj. Mark Young, a Corps of Engineers spokesman in Washington, said the security breach occurred in the command's Southwestern Division, which is headquartered in Dallas, in early November...

The inspector general of the National Archives and Records Administration is investigating a potential data breach affecting tens of millions of records about U.S. military veterans, Wired.com has learned. The issue involves a defective hard drive the agency sent back to its vendor for repair and recycling without first destroying the data...

Several military units failed to adequately sanitize hard drives of data, including Social Security numbers of military personnel, before shipping the IT equipment to other organizations, in violation of Department of Defense rules, the DoD inspector general said in a report...

Proton Data Security is announcing the new Proton model 1250A, a security device that ensures all information on compact disks (CD, CD-RW, CD-R, CD-ROM) and optical disks (DVD) is destroyed and rendered useless in an environmentally responsible manner...

A team of journalists investigating the global electronic waste business has unearthed a security problem too. In a Ghana market, they bought a computer hard drive containing sensitive documents belonging to a major government contractor...

Retail giant TJX Cos. agreed Tuesday to pay $9.75 million to 41 states including California to settle an investigation of a massive data breach that jeopardized millions of payment card numbers...