Collaborate Disseminate
A police officer is on trial for accessing records related to an investigation into her alleged driving offenses. Rory Cassidy reports: A police officer has gone on trial accused of illegally accessing her own case file. Acting Sergeant Victoria Robb i… Continue reading UK: Cop appears at Hamilton Sheriff Court on trial over data protection breach
Jan Vermeulen reports: Absa has sent a notice to several new clients found to be affected by a November 2020 data leak, when a former employee gave people’s personal information to a platform that sold it to third parties. The former Absa staff member … Continue reading Za: Absa data leak — more customers affected
The following is not a new incident. It is just a newly disclosed incident because of a law enforcement-requested delay in disclosure. North Shore University Hospital (NSUH) issued a notice on February 1, 2022 concerning insider-wrongdoing. The notice … Continue reading North Shore University Hospital notifies 7,614 patients of unauthorized access to personal information
Low Youjin reports from Singapore: Despite having signed an undertaking to safeguard official information, a former deputy lead from a data management unit of the Ministry of Health (MOH) chose to leak classified Covid-19 information to members of a ch… Continue reading Sg: Ex-deputy lead of MOH data unit jailed for leaking daily Covid-19 case numbers in 2020
Here’s a good example of how monitoring and logs can detect a problem and prevent even more problems. Michigan Medicine detected an employee accessing patient records without legitimate need. The improper access began in December, 2021, and conti… Continue reading Michigan Medicine notifies 269 patients after discovering a snooping employee
Scott Eidler reports: Nassau officials have notified more than 200 current and former employees in the Assessment Department their confidential personal data may have been breached after some co-workers last year gained unauthorized access to human res… Continue reading NY: Nassau notifies 209 workers their confidential personal data may have been breached by employees
Lewis Adams reports: Cases of snooping on confidential patient data at the trust which runs Colchester Hospital are among the highest in the country, figures reveal. East Suffolk and North Essex Foundation Trust reported the country’s second highest fi… Continue reading UK: Confidential patient data breached by ESNEFT staff
Snooping through patient records continues to be a serious problem in the healthcare sector — and it’s not country-specific. Here are two articles that showed up in my news searches this morning. From the UK: NHS disciplines more than two s… Continue reading Willful wrongdoing by healthcare workers continues to pose problems
A former Alberta Health Services (AHS) employee pleaded guilty on Monday, Feb. 7 to accessing health information in contravention of the Health Information Act (HIA). Marie Mushinski accessed the health information of 189 individuals 985 times over a t… Continue reading Ca: Fine, Probation Issued for Illegal Access to Health Information
February 1, 2022 — RICHMOND, Va. – A Durham, North Carolina, clinical psychologist was sentenced today to 52 months in prison for defrauding Virginia Medicaid of at least $544,067.69 by creating false diagnoses and medical records for Medicaid re… Continue reading North Carolina Psychologist Sentenced for Medicaid Fraud Scheme Involving Minors