http://www.darkreading.com/database_security/security/privacy/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=224600001 By Tim Wilson DarkReading April 21, 2010 Affinity Health Plan, a New York managed care service, is notifying more than 400,000 current and former customers employees that their personal data may have been leaked through the loss of an unerased digital copier hard drive. According to a press releasequietly issued earlier this month, some personal records were found on the hard drive of a copier found in a New Jersey warehouse. The copier had previously been leased by Affinity and was then returned to the leasing company, the release states. The disclosure follows the airing of a CBS News report which calls attention to the practice of recycling or resale of copiers whose hard drives have not been properly erased. The report showed the discovery of numerous medical records found on warehoused digital copiers. An executive at a company that makes hard-drive-erasure products used a free forensics tool to glean the data from one of the copiers in the CBS News report. [...] ___________________________________________________________ Register now for HITBSecConf2010 - Dubai, the premier deep-knowledge network security event in the GCC, featuring keynote speakers John Viega and Matt Watchinski! http://conference.hitb.org/hitbsecconf2010dxb/Received on Wed Apr 21 2010 - 22:20:34 PDT
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