DLA Piper writes: The Australian Privacy Commissioner has found that a suburban Melbourne medical practice has breached the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) by failing to take reasonable steps to secure personal information in its possession. […] The Pound Road Medical Centre (PRMC) moved premises in 2011 and believed that all paper-based medical records had been…
Month: August 2014
French credit card users most at risk of fraud
From The Local: Bank card users in France stood the highest chance of being a victim of fraud compared to the rest of Europe, new data released this week has revealed. Experts say France’s adoption chip and pin technology has forced criminals to find other ways stealing money. Some interesting stats in this article in…
Ex-Citadel Worker Pleads Guilty to HFT Data Theft
Andrew Harris reports: A former Citadel LLC employee pleaded guilty to stealing data from the Chicago investment firm and high-frequency trading computer code from another company. Yihao Ben Pu, 26, who was first charged in 2011, today admitted taking the proprietary information from Citadel that year and to an earlier theft of trade secrets from…
South Korean clinics defy ban on collecting ID
Lee Kyung-min reports: Hospitals continue to collect resident registration numbers from their patients, defying a newly enacted law that bans private entities from gathering personal information. However, they say that they have no choice but to continue to collect the identification numbers from patients since they have no alternatives to distinguish their customers. They insist…
AU: Psychiatric patients' records being aired in court
Harriet Alexander reports: Psychiatrists are handing their patients’ confidential records to the courts amid threats of jail, under a flourishing practice by solicitors of issuing “dirt digging” subpoenas. Some patients have been powerless to prevent details about their past sexual abuse or childhood trauma being aired in court, even in matters where they are not…
Broward woman who stole AT&T customers’ identities gets prison sentence
Paula McMahon reports: A Lauderdale Lakes woman, who admitted she stole the identities of about 18 AT&T customers, has been sentenced to two years and 10 months in federal prison, prosecutors said Thursday. Chouman Emily Syrilien, 25, of Lauderdale Lakes, who is also an amateur rap artist known as Nootchi Bankzz, pleaded guilty earlier this…