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Teenager arrested in Eugene school computer breach released

Posted on August 25, 2012 by Dissent

Back in June, the Eugene School District 4J in Oregon reported a breach.  A teenager who allegedly obtained an employee’s login credentials was subsequently charged. An affidavit submitted to obtain a search warrant of the student’s computer indicated that the teen had admitted to using a brute force program. Apparently, the teen has detained since…

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Doc reported after breast surgery vids hit YouTube

Posted on August 25, 2012 by Dissent

It seems it’s not just U.S. cosmetic surgeons getting into trouble over before/after images uploaded to the Internet that do not adequately protect patient privacy.  Here’s a news story by Clara Guibourg  in The Local in Sweden: A Stockholm-based plastic surgeon has been reported for uploading videos to YouTube, showing before, during and after footage of…

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Drug-Addicted Former Doctor Pleads Guilty To Illegally Acquiring Painkillers (updated)

Posted on August 24, 2012 by Dissent

Here’s the latest on a case I’ve been following since it was first disclosed in February 2009. The Lake Elsinore – Wildomar Patch reports: A former doctor with a felony record for multiple acts of identity theft and forgery stemming from an addiction to painkillers was sentenced today to five years behind bars for violating…

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CabinCr3w member sentenced to 27 months in prison (updated)

Posted on August 24, 2012 by Dissent

Steven Kreytak reports that a Galveston man was sentenced by a federal judge to 27 months in federal prison for hacking into computers of the Texas Department of Public Safety, the Alabama Department of Public Safety, Houston County, Alabama and the West Virginia Chiefs of Police Association. Higinio O. Ochoa III, who pleaded guilty in…

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Court Dismisses Minnesota AG's HIPAA Enforcement Action Against Business Associate Following Settlement

Posted on August 24, 2012 by Dissent

Rachel Grunberger and Dena Feldman write: Earlier this month, the federal district court in Minnesota dismissed a lawsuit brought earlier this year by the Minnesota Attorney General (AG) against Accretive Health, Inc., a business associate of hospitals, after the parties reached a settlement.  In the lawsuit, which we previously discussed here, the Minnesota AG alleged that the company…

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Another kind of extortion: get a lobotomy or I'll tell your family

Posted on August 24, 2012 by Dissent

This is unusual. A former employee out to embarrass her employer, Alexian Brothers Behavioral Health Hospital, allegedly sent letters to patients who had received electroshock therapy to tell them that the therapy had failed and that they should get frontal lobotomies.  And according to a report by Rummana Hussain  of the Chicago Sun-Times,  some of the letters included…

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