Robert Gavin reports: A licensed practical nurse was sentenced four to 12 years in state prison Tuesday for her role in stealing the identities of dozens of mostly elderly patients. Suzette Guzman-Moore and her boyfriend Emmett Woods were arrested May 7 for their roles in a scheme authorities said preyed on at least 50 patients. Read more on TimesUnion.com
Month: August 2014
Ca: Newfoundland health authority says botched fax breached privacy of 52 patients
Faxing errors continue to contribute to privacy breaches. The Canadian Press reports: Newfoundland and Labrador’s second largest health authority is apologizing to 52 patients for a privacy breach it blames on a botched fax number. Central Health Authority says medical information was mistakenly faxed as an email to a 1-800 number instead of a 1-866 number….
Intelligence Gap: How a Chinese National Gained Access to Arizona’s Terror Center
Andrew Becker, CIR and Ryan Gabrielson, ProPublica report: LIZHONG FAN’S DESK WAS AMONG A CROWD of cubicles at the Arizona Counter Terrorism Information Center in Phoenix. For five months in 2007, the Chinese national and computer programmer opened his laptop and enjoyed access to a wide range of sensitive information, including the Arizona driver’s license…
UK: Personal details of 47,000 Brent residents for sale on the dark web
Emma Youle reports: The personal information of more than 47,000 people living in Brent has been put up for sale on the dark web, according to new data revealing the startling scale of online identity fraud. […] C6 Intelligence, which works with leading financial and retail companies, has penetrated more than 50 criminal websites and…
Orange sanctioned by French regulator after customer data breach
Orange has received a public warning from the French privacy watchdog Cnil after personal details of more than a million of its customers were leaked on the internet. Orange notified Cnil of the problem in April, blaming a technical fault at one of its marketing suppliers. Almost 1.3 million customers were affected, with their name,…
UK: Hammersmith and Fulham policewoman fired after breaching police data act
Graham Spence reports on another case of police misuse of databases: Trainee Detective Constable Sadaf Bhatti, 39 , a former Metropolitan Police Service officer based at Hammersmith and Fulham has been dismissed without notice. Bhatti had previously pleaded guilty to three counts of breaching the Data Protection Act at Westminster Magistrates’ Court on Thursday, 5…