Back in April 2012, I noted an insider breach at the South Carolina Department of Health and Human Services, after they discovered that an employee had copied 228,000 Medicaid recipients’ information and sent it to his personal e-mail. The data were reportedly also shared with one other person. In February 2013, Christopher R. Lykes, Jr., the employee in question, was indicted.
Today, Associated Press reports that Lykes pleaded guilty to four counts of willful examination of private records by a public employee and one count of criminal conspiracy.