About 12,000 current and former employees of Armstrong World Industries have to worry about identity theft. A laptop containing confidential personnel information was recently stolen from a Deloitte & Touche LLP employee. The firm was hired to perform regular internal audits for Armstrong.
F. Nicholas Grasberger III, Armstrong senior vice president and chief financial officer, said the personal information on the stolen laptop contained names, home addresses, phone numbers, Social Security numbers, employee identification numbers, annual salary/hourly wage data and the bank account numbers of employees who have their checks directly deposited.
Source: Lancaster Online
Written by MCruz on July 25th, 2006 with no comments.
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Georgetown University Hospital (GUH) patient information was exposed on a third party computer system maintained by InstantDX (a Maryland-based firm). A computer consultant stumbled upon the unsecured data while performing a software installation at a physician’s office.
The leaked information included patients’ names, a ddresses, Social Security numbers and dates of birth, but not medical data or the drugs the patients were prescribed, says Marianne Worley, a spokeswoman for the Washington, D.C.-based hospital known for providing emergency care to the nation’s most powerful political figures.
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“The initial investigation has found that no patient demographic data was inappropriately used,” says Worley, who says between 5,600 and 23,000 patients were affected.
There is no indication in the article if those affected will be notified of the incident. In fact, the Indiana-based consultant may be blamed instead of commended for discovering the unsecured data.
Source: Wired
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