Shore News Today in New Jersey reports: An Absecon woman was arrested Wednesday, Sept. 2 for allegedly accessing someone’s medical records on the AtlantiCare Regional Medical Center computer network, according to Atlantic County Prosecutor Ted Housel. Mildred Zamot, 30, accessed the records May 14 while she was working at Atlantic Gastroenterology Associates in Egg Harbor…
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UK: Secret files on care kids found in Wolverhampton garden shed
Paul Cole reports: Sensitive information on vulnerable children in social services’ care was found in a Midland garden shed by a builder, it emerged last night. The confidential information is believed to have included private and personal case files of hundreds of children who were held in care in the Black Country. Sensitive files had…
NY: Discarded files: An ID nightmare
Karen O’Shea reports: Investigators probing the affairs of Jonathan Boxman, a former title-insurance agent who was arrested in July on charges he allegedly stole money from clients during the high-flying days of the real-estate boom, might want to look behind his onetime office building in a remote section of Charleston. That’s where hundreds of Boxman’s…
Suit alleges patient confidentiality breach
Jeff Tucker reports: A Pueblo West man has filed a lawsuit against the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center on behalf of his daughter, who sought treatment at the university hospital in Denver and was sent to a New Mexico prison for her trouble. Kimberly K. Lusardi, 36, is serving an eight-year sentence in New…
UK: Probe after civil servant details given out with FOI
The Scottish government is under investigation by the UK information tsar after it mistakenly provided confidential details about civil servants to the Sunday Herald. Internal documents with individual computer ID and phone numbers were accidentally included in papers about energy policy released last week after a freedom of information request. The government has been accused…
Case in point
Some people — who shall go nameless for now — call some of us “privacy nuts” as if it’s a bad thing. But anyone who works in the field of mental health, as I do, may be understandably seriously concerned about privacy and security issues. I received a phone call this week that’s a case…