Collaborate Disseminate
Lydia Lam reports: A team leader at a call centre in Malaysia handling technical support for Singtel customers helped an ex-colleague retrieve information from more than 1,000 business accounts belonging to licensed moneylenders. The information, which… Continue reading Malaysia call centre worker jailed for retrieving Singtel customer details that were later sold to loan sharks
Susan Samples reports: Spectrum Health says it has launched an investigation after a group of doctors posted to Instagram photos taken in the operating room that show an organ from one patient and fibroid tissue from another. One picture showed a docto… Continue reading Playing ‘Price is Right’-style game, GR doctors post operating room photos online
Agents with the Florida Department of Law Enforcement today arrested Laura Rose Carroll, 50, and her daughter, 17, of Pensacola on one count each of offenses against users of computers, computer systems, computer networks, and electronic devices (a 3rd… Continue reading FDLE arrests mother and daughter for unauthorized access into hundreds of student accounts
March 11 – Leonard C Boyle, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that WALI MUHAMMAD, 45, of Branford, waived his right to be indicted and pleaded guilty today to one count of health care fraud. Pursuant to the … Continue reading Owner of Connecticut Mental Health Services Agency Pleads Guilty to Health Care Fraud Charge
Ian Sherr reports: Apple says a former product design employee stole information about hardware products, unannounced features and future plans and leaked them to a journalist, breaking the company’s nondisclosure policies and trade secrets laws…. Continue reading Apple sues former MacBook product design employee for allegedly leaking to the press
Articles on breaches involving protected health information (PHI) often raise the specter of what could happen if a patient’s records were misused and the patient’s healthcare suffered as a result. Here’s a case where it reportedly h… Continue reading Former Roswell Park nurse pleads guilty to tampering with a consumer product
Joseph Brookes reports: A youth case worker stood down from a Victorian health department service provider on suspicion of accessing child pornography continued to access sensitive information about clients for months afterwards, according to a data br… Continue reading AU: Victoria privacy breach of vulnerable youth data
Rebecca Speare-Cole reports: An IT technician who installed software onto computers at work to spy on his colleagues and was found with indecent images of children has been jailed. Andrew Cakebread, 36, stole 6,803 videos from his coworkers and their f… Continue reading UK: Paedophile IT technician jailed after installing software onto work computers to spy on colleagues
Michael Bleby reports the latest developments in the wake of a breach involving Landmark White (now known as Acumentis): ASX-listed valuer LandMark White’s cyber security standards will come under the spotlight this week, as the trial kicks off of an … Continue reading AU: LandMark White data breach trial to put firm under spotlight
Paul J. Gough reports that an employee of UPMC St. Margaret was fired after they sent a record to an unidentified outside organization that contained patient information. A March 5th statement on UPMC’s web site reveals that on August 8, 2020, UP… Continue reading Some UPMC St. Margaret patients’ info shared with unauthorized organization by now-former employee