AAP reports: A Victorian police officer has been charged after he allegedly accessed and passed on police information. The 45-year-old male officer, from the Eastern Region, has been charged with accessing police information, disclosing police information, and intentionally communicating protected information. Read more at The West Australian.
Fox News reports on a somewhat wild case. A man who had access to Polk State College through his work as a clinical coordinator for PSC for Lakeland Regional Health allegedly hacked PSC in revenge after he was fired from Lakeland after a positive drug test. The folks at PSC reportedly had nothing to...
Darcy Costello reports: A former Baltimore County police officer accused of stealing a dead woman’s identity entered a guilty plea Wednesday to one count of identity theft. Deandre Ross, 27, who worked for the Baltimore County Police for four years, was sentenced to three years in prison, all but 18 months suspended, followed by...
Catalin Cimpanu reports: An Oregon man and a former employee of Ubiquiti Networks was arrested and charged today with hacking the company’s servers, stealing gigabytes of information, and then attempting to extort his employer for $2 million when Ubiquiti began investigating the breach. The suspect, arraigned in a courtroom earlier today, was identified as Nickolas...
HIPAA Journal reports: A class action lawsuit filed against West Virginia University Health System over a breach of the protected health information of 7,445 patients has had the class certification order lifted by the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia. The lawsuit is related to an insider data breach that occurred in 2016....
Huntington Hospital in New York has disclosed an insider-wrongdoing incident that occurred between October 2018 and February 2019. Although they determined in February, 2019 that the now-former employee was engaging in unauthorized access to patient records, and suspended the employee (and eventually terminated the employment), they were asked to delay notification to those impacted...
THV11 reports: According to the Little Rock Police Department, Officer Miles McWayne has been arrested for “unauthorized access” of the personal information of a citizen. The person filed a police report with the department in August after the reported incident took place in May. McWayne was officially charged with the misdemeanor of accessing the...
Sean Davies reports: A perverted doctor was jailed for two years and eight months for spying on housemates, friends, colleagues and hacking the details of 2000 potential women victims. Vinesh Godhania used a tiny pin-hole camera to secretly record women having sex, showers and using the bathroom at his address. He covertly filmed doctors,...
Will Stribling reports: A federal judge has ruled in favor of the University of Mississippi Medical Center (UMMC) over litigation against three former employees who stole patient medical records for their own use and then lied about possessing them for years. U.S. District Judge Carlton Reeves on Oct. 8 issued a default judgment in...
NZ: OPC finds leading cause of privacy breaches is human error