The Information Commissioner’s Office announced: A former health adviser has been found guilty of accessing medical records of patients without a valid legal reason. Christopher O’Brien, 36, was working at the South Warwickshire NHS Foundation Trust when he unlawfully accessed the records of 14 patients, who were known personally to him, between June and December...
Danny Bradbury reports: Police in Spain have arrested two people on suspicion of hacking the country’s Radioactivity Alert Network (RAR). The RAR, operated by Spain’s General Directorate of Civil Protection and Emergencies, is a network of gamma radiation sensors. It monitors parts of Spain – which operates nuclear power plants – for excessive radiation....
Gabrielle Russon reports: A construction company says an employee who quit his job downloaded and stole a trove of confidential information before he left. On his way out the door, the ex-employee obtained documents such as the company’s bank account statements and tax returns as well as 401(k) information containing employees’ names, Social Security...
Gabriel Avner writes: There’s an old joke about why bank robbers rob banks. Because that’s where the money is. Given the valuable assets under their care, banks, fintech, insurance, and other financial institutions have understood that they have to take special care to avoid data breaches and other threats. But if the past week’s...
July 13, 2022 — Earlier today, a federal jury in Central Islip returned a guilty verdict on eight counts of a superseding indictment charging Mathew James with perpetrating an over $600 million health care fraud scheme, which also included wire fraud and aggravated identity theft charges. The verdict followed a six-week trial before United...
Joshua Schulte, who called himself “Bad Ass,” and who was also called “Voldemort” by colleagues in the C.I.A.’s Operations Support Branch, was convicted by a federal court jury in New York of sending the CIA’s “Vault 7” cyber-warfare tools to WikiLeaks in 2017. Larry Neumeister and Tom Hays of AP report: A former CIA...
WY: Former Employee Inappropriately Accessed Cheyenne Regional Medical Center Patient Health Records
Phoenixville Hospital was just one of two reports this week involving employees behaving badly by accessing patient files without a legitimate purpose. On July 6, Cheyenne Regional Medical Center in Wyoming revealed that a former employee had inappropriately accessed several patients’ personal health records between August 31, 2020, and May 26, 2022. In this...
Despite employers’ best efforts, some employees will just continue to try to snoop in patient files. This time, a covered entity discovered the wrongdoing via their own internal monitoring. Phoenixville Hospital, operated by Tower Health, reports that a recent review detected that an employee had accessed a patient’s electronic medical records (EMR) without any...
Low-tech local crime still happens. Bob D’Angelo reports: A woman who worked at a South Carolina Taco Bell is accused of taking photos of customers’ credit cards and using the numbers to buy items for herself, authorities said. Laquawanda Hawkins was arrested Friday and charged with four counts of financial transaction card theft, four...
Ca: How the court bolstered an insurer’s exclusion for privacy breach