A former Miami-Dade Police Department officer was sentenced to 48 months in prison, to be followed by three years of supervised release, by U.S. District Judge Jose E. Martinez for his participation in a wire fraud scheme, arising out of the operation of a series of credit repair businesses. George Price, 42, previously pled guilty…
Month: October 2015
NY: Center for Disability Rights offers help to people in alleged data breach
Patti Singer reports on what appears to be a case involving allegations that a former executive and employees of a licensed home care agency took patient information with them to a open a competing agency: Anyone who is or was affiliated with Angels in Your Home as a client or health care aide can contact the Center for…
More disclosures in the wake of the Systema Software data leak
On October 16, Millers Mutual Group started notifying claimants whose information was stored on Systema Software’s server. The leak was first disclosed by DataBreaches.net in September, and Millers says they first learned of it on September 23, apparently weeks after other entities were notified by the vendor or Chris Vickery, who had discovered the leak. In a letter to…
Irish Water ‘tightened controls’ after customer bank details were sent to the wrong people
The Journal reports: Irish Water belatedly instigated a ‘tightening of controls’ and implemented extra training for staff in the wake of customer data breaches at the company earlier this year. The information has come to light as a result of records released under freedom of information. The incidents occurred in March 2015 and involved up to 15 customers’…
Sony’s Settlement With Employees Over Hacked Data Worth More Than $5.5 Million
The Hollywood Reporter reports: Sony Pictures will be paying somewhere in the neighborhood of $5.5 million to $8 million to resolve a class action lawsuit over a large hack attack last winter that left the personal information of employees and ex-employees vulnerable. The details of the settlement were revealed in court papers on Monday night….
Ark., Md. Providers Notify Patients of Health Data Breaches
HealthITSecurity has reports on two HIPAA breaches reported to HHS. The first involved two employees of Baptist Health and Arkansas Health Group taking information on 6,500 patients with them to their new employer, Bray Family Health. The second incident involved a laptop missing from Johns Hopkins Medicine that contained health information for 571 cancer patients and 267 study participants. You can…