A Barclays employee who snooped in her partner’s ex-wife’s bank statements pleaded guilty in court to 11 offenses under section 55 of the Data Protection Act. The Information Commissioner’s Office reports she was fined £500 by Derby Crown Court and ordered to pay a £15 victim surcharge and £1,410.80 prosecution costs.
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NYC: 7 Indicted In Credit Card Fraud Scheme At Midtown Parking Garage
CBS News reports: Seven people were indicted Wednesday on charges of stealing credit card information from customers at the Midtown parking garage. The defendants were accused of using credit card-skimming devices to steal account information from the Eastway Tenant Parking Garage on West 49th Street, and creating counterfeit cards to buy Apple products at the…
Ca: Medical files of local media personalities breached
This is long past the point where this type of curious employee goes snooping has become a well-known risk. One can argue that at least VCH detected it fairly quickly and took action fairly quickly, but how about prevention? CTV reports: A female Vancouver Coastal Health employee has been fired after accessing the confidential electronic…
WINZ privacy breach reports cost almost $500k
Katie Bradford-Crozier reports that two reports into the privacy breach at the Work and Income kiosks cost nearly half a million dollars. Read more on NewstalkZB.
Privacy breach at Bay of Plenty District Health Board
Kiri Gillespie reports that the Bay of Plenty District Health Board has fired an employee for snooping in 48 patients’ files and then casually discussing the cases with co-workers. Read more in the New Zealand Herald. In related coverage, Phillipa Yalden reports that the employee is a 66-year-old woman who was employed at Tauranga Hospital…
Third Annual Benchmark Study on Patient Privacy & Data Security
The Third Annual Benchmark Study on Patient Privacy & Data Security by Ponemon Institute, sponsored by ID Experts® was released today. Their findings are what we would expect, i.e., fairly discouraging, with entities reporting even more multiple breaches than previously. From their executive summary: … healthcare organizations face an uphill battle in their efforts to…