Collaborate Disseminate
Yahoo! reports: A female civil servant and another woman, both 36, will be charged on Wednesday (14 April) over alleged leaks of the daily updates of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Singapore prior to their official release, the police said on Tuesday (13 … Continue reading Singapore public servant, another woman to be charged over COVID-19 data leak
rdnewsNOW reports: An internal investigation by Alberta Health Services (AHS) has revealed 3,224 patients had their electronic health records accessed improperly over a two-year period at Red Deer Regional Hospital Centre (RDRHC) by two clerical employ… Continue reading Ca: Privacy breach at RDRHC Diagnostic Imaging department
Alice Liana Galli reports: A woman stalked by a radiographer after he stole her NHS files has spoken for the first time about the impact of his actions on her life and how she moved home. Waiving her anonymity, Vivien Hamilton spoke to The Ferret becau… Continue reading UK: Woman stalked by radiographer after NHS file accessed speaks out
Leo Shane III reports: A group of 50 House lawmakers is demanding immediate improvements to the Department of Veterans Affairs system for investigating sexual harassment complaints after a woman was stalked and intimidated by a call center employee who… Continue reading VA staffer used medical records to stalk and harass female vet, lawmakers demand reforms
Signify Health, LLC is a business associate to entities covered under HIPAA. On October 12, 2020, they discovered that an employee had published his login credentials to a subscription-based job board. The employee, described as a low-level IT Support… Continue reading Signify Health notifies covered entities’ patients of possible access to their PHI
Some days, I see a name in my news feed and think, “Oh, I know about that breach already.” But then I doublecheck, only to learn that no, this was not the breach I had covered a week or so ago, but yet another breach involving the same nam… Continue reading UPDATE: Trillium Health IT specialist pleads guilty to stealing personal info from colleagues’ computers
Zack Whittaker reports: A grand jury has indicted a California resident accused of stealing Shopify customer data on over a hundred merchants, TechCrunch has learned. The indictment charges Tassilo Heinrich with aggravated identity theft and conspiracy… Continue reading US indicts California man accused of stealing Shopify customer data
March 19 – The CEO of a local hospice agency has pleaded guilty to defrauding Medicare and Medicaid, announced Acting U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Prerak Shah. Bradley J. Harris, the 39-year-old former head of Novus and Optimu… Continue reading TX: Novus Hospice CEO Pleads Guilty to Healthcare Fraud
March 22 — Deepanshu Kher was sentenced today in federal court to two years in prison for accessing the server of a Carlsbad Company and deleting over 1,200 over the company’s 1,500 Microsoft User Accounts. According to court documents, Kher was … Continue reading Vengeful IT Contractor Sentenced to Two Years for Deleting Carlsbad Company’s Microsoft User Accounts
There’s an update to litigation stemming from misuse of a Minnesota state database. The case began in 2013, when Amy Krekelberg received a notice from Minnesota’s Department of Natural Resources that informed her that an employee had abused his … Continue reading MN: Minneapolis Police Officer’s Data Misuse Claims Head to Retrial