Kenneth P. Vogel, David Stern, and Josh Meyer report: A purported cyberhack of the daughter of political consultant Paul Manafort suggests that he was the victim of a blackmail attempt while he was serving as Donald Trump’s presidential campaign chairman last summer. The undated communications, which are allegedly from the iPhone of Manafort’s daughter, include a…
Month: February 2017
Owner Of Durable Medical Equipment Company And Three Physicians Charged With Health Care Fraud And Aggravated Identity Theft
SAN JUAN, P.R. – On February 13, 2017, a Federal Grand Jury in the District of Puerto Rico returned a superseding indictment charging Dr. Dante A. Rodríguez-Rivera, Javier Efraín Siverio-Echevarría, Dr. George D. Alcántara-Cardi, Dr. Martha Nieves, Javier Antonio Aguirre- Estrada, and Carlos Maldonado-López with multiple counts of conspiracy to commit health care fraud, health…
MN: South Washington School District investigating student hacking incident
Jessie Bekker reports: The South Washington County school district is tightening security after a high school student hacked into the district’s server and took names, Social Security numbers and some addresses. According to a letter sent to teachers and staffers last week by Superintendent Keith Jacobus, the student downloaded the data to an external hard…
St. Paul approves $29K to officer who says cops snooped in her driver’s license data
Mara H. Gottfried reports: The St. Paul City Council agreed Wednesday to pay $29,500 to settle the lawsuit brought by a Minneapolis police officer who accused St. Paul officers of snooping in her personal driver’s license information. Amy Krekelberg’s federal lawsuit initially named officers and employees from more than 40 law enforcement agencies and entities…
NYC Dept. of Education email gaffe exposes 439 paraprofessionals’ SSN
Jim Hoffer reports: New York City’s Department of Education accidentally sent out an email that had not just the names, but also the Social Security numbers of hundreds of employees. […] “The attachment was a list of Department of Education para-professionals, exactly 439 names, first, last names and Social Security numbers,” the teacher’s assistant said….
Will a Pending OCR Rule Impact Breach Class-Action Suits?
Marianne Kolbasuk McGee A pending federal regulation – called for under the HITECH Act – that would allow regulators to share with breach victims money collected in HIPAA violation cases eventually could have implications in class-action breach lawsuits, says privacy attorney Adam Greene. The Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights “is working on a new…