There’s a follow-up to a breach previously noted on this blog. On October 6, Sean Emery reported: A tutor at the center of an alleged grade-changing scandal at Corona del Mar High School was arrested Monday when police say he returned to Southern California after fleeing the country. Timothy Lance Lai, 29, was taken into…
Month: November 2014
UK: EMAS will "learn from its mistakes" in wake of breach
In the wake of a data protection breach impacting 40,000 patients, East Midlands Ambulance Service is working to prevent future problems. The Lincolnshire Echo reports: A strategy was developed at the Trust meeting on October 28 which resulted in new computerised systems and improving IT security. The investigation found the computer system the information was stored on was…
TX: Ex-Parkland employee to plead guilty to Medicare fraud
Kevin Krause reports: Federal authorities say a former Parkland Memorial Hospital employee illegally used information from thousands of patients to defraud Medicare and Medicaid. Viju Mathew, 49, of Garland has agreed to plead guilty to a federal fraud charge and is scheduled to go before a judge later this month to formally enter the plea….