Ben Grubb reports: Over the last two days a Senate inquiry has delved into the government’s plans to roll-out a 16-digit national healthcare identifier for the majority of Australians, with the main obstacle many parties saw to implementation still being privacy. The inquiry will hand in a report next week which will help inform debate…
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5 hospital workers get jobs back in privacy case
Chris Moran reports: Five of the 16 employees fired by the Harris County Hospital District in November after being accused of violating patient privacy laws have been reinstated. The firings were the fallout from October, when Dr. Stephanie Wuest, a first-year Baylor College of Medicine resident assigned to Ben Taub General Hospital, was shot in…
TJX Hacking Conspirator Gets 4 Years
Kim Zetter reports: Humza Zaman, a co-conspirator in the hack of TJX and other companies, was sentenced Thursday in Boston to 46 months in prison and fined $75,000 for his role in the conspiracy. The sentence matches what prosecutors were seeking. Zaman, a 33-year-old former programmer at Barclays Bank, was charged with laundering between $600,000…
Former waitress at P.F. Chang’s pleads guilty to skimming customer data
Nora R. Dannehy, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that Chibuzo Okafor, 24, of Rosedale, New York, waived her right to be indicted and pleaded guilty today before United States District Judge Janet C. Hall in Bridgeport to one count of conspiracy to commit access device fraud. According to court documents and…
(update) Pathologists sue ex-WDH employee fired over privacy breach
Adam D. Krauss updates us on developments related to allegations concerning a breach at Wentworth-Douglass Hospital (previous news stories here): The former Wentworth-Douglass Hospital pathologists who claimed the hospital retaliated against them over a patient privacy have sued an ex-WDH employee who was fired over the matter. In paperwork filed today at Strafford County Superior…
Monoprice.com Shuttered After Fraud Complaints
Brian Krebs reports: Audio visual cabling giant monoprice.com shut down its Web site – possibly for the next couple of weeks – while it investigates the possible compromise of its customer credit and debit card information. Vincent Lim, monoprice.com’s operations manager, said the company took the site offline around midnight on Friday, Mar. 5, after…