Alex Gecan has an update on an alleged breach that I had noted here with the caution:
This sounds like a bitter termination situation and I wouldn’t rush to any judgement on these allegations until there is more investigation or facts revealed.
I’ll repeat that caution now. Gecan reports:
A local non-profit health center and its top administrator are suing the clinic’s former information technology director — most recently director of innovation – over missing data, harassment and threats.
The Community Health Center and Chief Executive Officer Mark Masselli filed suit against former CHC Information Technology Director Ali Eslami in Middlesex Superior Court on June 12.
At the time of his termination, Eslami’s title had been director of innovation.
The CHC and Masselli allege that Eslami improperly removed computer equipment from the clinic, withheld vital encryption information and passwords and harassed and threatened Masselli and Masselli’s family.
The complaint reads that CHC fired Eslami on Feb. 24, after having suspended him Feb. 7. Eslami has told the Press that he acted as a whistleblower when he discovered a security breach in CHC’s information systems and that his termination was retaliatory. He said that he had found evidence of a Trojan in CHC’s information systems, which would have allowed unauthorized “backdoor access” to patients’ information.
Read more on The Middletown Press.