An FDNY employee may have compromised the personal information of over 10,000 people

Good news, everyone!

If you live in New York City and your personal information wasn't already compromised by the recent, massive hack of Capital One's customer database, there's still an excellent chance that at least some of the sensitive information in your life has its ass hanging out for the world to see, courtesy of the Fire Department of New York.

From Gizmodo:

An estimated 10,253 people who used the FDNYs Emergency Medical Services between 2011 to 2018 had their data exfiltrated well over a year ago, when an employee, who was authorized to access the records, had uploaded the information onto the personal external device, which went missing sometime thereafter, according to a statement by FDNY.

A personal hard drive! That's been missing! For a year! I'm sure it's fine! The FDNY would love it if you believed this to be true. To make sure that those possibly compromised in the breach, they sent out a letter, via snail mail (I mean, you obviously can't trust computers), talking the those who received medical care from the Fire Department during the aforementioned, seven-year period:

What happened:On March 4, 2019, the New York City Fire Department (FDNY) was notified that an FDNY employees personal portable hard drive was reported missing from an FDNY facility. This hard drive is a portable electronic data storage device that can be attached to a computer. It belonged to an employee authorized to access FDNY patient information and contained confidential personal information about patients who had been treated and/or transported by an FDNY ambulance.