A fifth person has been arrested in connection with what police are calling the “Jamaican lottery scam” investigation, which already has seen four other Routt County residents federally indicted and arraigned. Dean Leslie Mowatt, 31, was booked into the Routt County Jail on Sunday and is suspected of theft, identity theft, criminal possession of a…
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Fayetteville School District employees victims of id theft
40/29 reports that 30 Fayetteville School District employees have had their Social Security numbers compromised. All of the victims are certified staff members who work for the Fayetteville School District. The district has as yet no idea how the breach occurred or precisely what information was obtained. They also report that: So far, all the…
NZ: Pleas for medical notes must be justified – commissioner
Insurance company requests for people’s full medical notes must be clearly justified, the Privacy Commissioner says. The issue has been highlighted by the case of terminally ill Christchurch man Wayne Croft, who is fighting his health insurance company over its refusal to pay his claim. Croft gave permission to Sovereign Insurance to access his medical…
Imperial breaches the DPA
Imperial College Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust has become the latest NHS organisation to be required to sign an undertaking not to breach the Data Protection Act by the Information Commissioner’s Office. The undertaking says six laptops were stolen in two burglaries at St Mary’s Hospital, one of which was unencrypted even though it held patient…
Imperial breaches the DPA
Imperial College Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust has become the latest NHS organisation to be required to sign an undertaking not to breach the Data Protection Act by the Information Commissioner’s Office. The undertaking says six laptops were stolen in two burglaries at St Mary’s Hospital, one of which was unencrypted even though it held patient details….
NHS Direct wrongly emailed patients' data
The organisation’s annual report for 2008-09 reveals that the information, including the names, addresses, NHS numbers, dates of birth and clinical data of about 100 patients, were disclosed without authorisation in October last year. In a statement to GC News NHS Direct said that this happened when a spreadsheet was emailed to three people in…