The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has found that a doctor at North West London Hospitals NHS Trust breached the Data Protection Act by leaving medical information about 56 patients on the tube. The incident, which was reported to the ICO by the Trust in May 2010, occurred when a doctor printed out personal and diagnostic…
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WI: Former Adecco employee implicated in ID thefts of Milwaukee County workers
A former contracted employee for the Milwaukee County human resources department faces an identify theft charge – and so does her boyfriend. 26-year-old Starlita Sims and 25-year-old Christopher Lee Jackson are each charged with one felony count. But Sheriff David Clarke said Monday that the couple is suspected of stealing the identities of over 30…
Real estate broker gets 69 years in prison for $17.5 million fraud
Rachanee Srisavasdi and Larry Welborn report: A real estate broker was sentenced to 69 years and six months in prison Monday for a $17.5 million real estate fraud scheme in which she used stolen identities to illegally purchase properties, then defaulted on the loans to pocket the loan money. Kathy Chen, 49, was convicted in…
FL: Employees’ Personal Info Found In Trash
An employee taking out the trash at a Southside office plaza found boxes of employees’ W-2 forms, copies of their driver’s licenses, Social Security cards and other personal information, all from the tax company Jackson Hewitt. Cynthia Kessler said she found out Monday some of her personal information, including her Social Security number, driver’s license…
Data loss doubles in financial services sector
So as I was saying, breaches aren’t down in 2010. Almost twice as many financial services companies suffered information theft, loss or attack in the past 12 months than in the previous year, according to a new conducted by the Economist Intelligence Unit and security company Kroll. The report found that 42% of financial services…
Feds Study Privacy of Psychotherapy Notes
Joseph Goeddert reports: The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration will hold the last of a series of public meetings in Los Angeles on Nov. 18 as federal officials study whether HIPAA privacy protections for mental health information should be strengthened by broadening the definition of “psychotherapy notes” to include test data. […] The…