Great Yarmouth and Waveney Primary Care Trust and Gloucestershire Primary Care Trust have taken remedial action after the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) found them in breach of the Data Protection Act. Great Yarmouth and Waveney Primary Care Trust (PCT) informed the ICO of the theft of two desktop computers containing sensitive personal data relating to…
Author: Dissent
AZ: Former Quebedeaux employee sentenced for fraud and identity theft
Leasa Conze reports: A former Quebedeaux Pontiac employee was sentenced today to five years in prison after pleading guilty to bank fraud and aggravated identity theft. John Savage III,from Fort Lauderdale, Florida, moved to Tucson In October 2007 and took a job with the local dealership, where he had access to customer credit cards. Read…
639-count indictment of 15 allegedly involved in NYC ID theft ring
Manhattan District Attorney Robert M. Morgenthau announced a 639-count indictment of 15 individuals in connection with a $600,000 pickpocketing and identity theft ring which compromised at least 60 accounts at various bank branches in New York City. The defendants are Arthur Franklin, Joseph Simms, Vincent Franklin, James Mannix, Kathleen Miller, Carol Dibitetto, Larry Ford, Kandra…
Heartland Update: Some St. Mary’s debit cards compromised
Cards that were “low-risk” from Heartland breach recently used for fraud. Denis Paiste reports: St. Mary’s Bank is reissuing about 3,500 debit cards it had been monitoring since a security breach at a national processor in January. “We were told they were low-risk cards, but very recently we’ve been seeing some fraudulent activity,” St. Mary’s…
Ca: Vaccination consent forms raise concerns about privacy
Christina Spencer reports: Ontario’s hodge-podge of different consent forms for people seeking the H1N1 flu vaccine has raised concerns for Ontario’s information and privacy commissioner. It has also led Ann Cavoukian’s office to investigate why at least one regional health unit has requested both drivers’ licences and OHIP cards at public vaccine clinics. Cavoukian said…
Es: Barcelona hospital has opened a disciplinary case against the doctor patient details on the street
Barcelona hospital has opened a disciplinary case against the doctor who left patient details on the street. The papers contained the personal details of 173 transplant patients beside a container for recycling paper. It appears the papers were kept at the persons home, although they no longer worked at the hospital. T he person ivolved…