Not for the celebrity aspect, but for the privacy issue: Michael Jackson’s father, Joseph Jackson aka Joe, has subpoenaed UCLA Medical center for Michael’s medical and other records because he believes the records reveal foul play in his son’s death. Brian Oxman, Joe’s lawyer, sent 2 subpoenas to UCLA Medical Center, where Michael Jackson was…
Author: Dissent
Suits filed over Aurora's use of medical data in bankruptcy cases
Bruce Vielmetti reports: Susan Dandridge knew that when she sought protection in bankruptcy court last year, information about her debts and income would go into a public court file. “It’s old bills and stuff from my earlier life I’m trying to clean up,” said the 53-year-old admissions adviser at Herzing University, a for-profit college with…
Looking back on 2009
The breach of Heartland Payment Systems grabbed the headlines for much of the year and the entire population of Belize had their birth details stolen when a government employee left a laptop in a car, but what else went on? Your details, my friend, were blowing in the wind Although the number of breaches involving…
Philadelphia woman charged in ID theft ring
On December 14, United States Attorney Michael L. Levy announced the filing of a two-count information (pdf) charging Cursheena Patterson, age 24, of Philadelphia, with one count of conspiracy to commit unauthorized access fraud and one count of aggravated identity theft. According to the information, from October through December, 2008, Patterson allegedly obtained the names,…
MA: Data breaches affect million state residents
Hiawatha Bray of the Boston Globe had an article in today’s paper about the 807 breach notifications the state received over a two-year period. The article referenced some breaches not previously reported in the media: Smaller incidents include the theft in October of three laptop computers from the Springfield accounting firm Moriarty & Primack. The…
WA: Personnel files for Larch workers stolen
Kathie Durbin reports: The Washington Department of Corrections is investigating an incident in which a briefcase full of sensitive personnel records was stolen from the vehicle of a Larch Corrections Center manager early Monday morning. Larch human resources manager Roy Murphy reportedly took the records home over last weekend to review them, then left his…