AP reports a follow-up to a data loss incident reported earlier this month: A murder suspect was released from jail Monday after his trial was postponed when Dallas police revealed they had lost a massive amount of criminal data. Read more on AP.
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Florida Woman Convicted Of Damaging Her Former Employer’s Computers After She Was Fired
Here’s today’s reminder why you need to be sure to terminate access when you fire someone. How did she still have access two days later? It will be interesting to see what her sentence is and how much restitution she will have to pay. Audrey Strauss, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of…
Still Missing a New Leader, Former OCR Directors, Experts Offer Advice, Task List
Theresa Defino writes: Issue a final rule revising the privacy regulation and write guidance on the information blocking rule. Formalize the fledgling audit program required by Congress more than 10 years ago. Engage with providers and other HIPAA-regulated entities. And by all means, get cracking. In a series of interviews with RPP, two former Office for…
Pearson to pay $1M fine for misleading investors about 2018 data breach
Carly Page reports: Pearson, a London-based publishing and education giant that provides software to schools and universities has agreed to pay $1 million to settle charges that it misled investors about a 2018 data breach resulting in the theft of millions of student records. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission announced the settlement on Monday after the…
Ex-West Penn Hospital technician gets jail for secretly recording undressed patients
Paula Reed Ward reports that Guy Caley, 53, of Canonsburg, a former medical technician at West Penn Hospital, has been sentenced to serve 11 to 22 months in Allegheny County Jail, to be followed by 10 years of probation. Caley pleaded guilty in May to 89 counts including invasion of privacy and intercepting communications. Of note,…
Moorfields Eye Hospital investigating cyberattack on Dubai hospital, notifying patients
In one of the latest attacks on medical entities, AvosLocker has claimed that they exfiltrated 60 GB of data from “Moorfields NHS UK & Dubai.” So far, however, there is no evidence that any UK servers were hit — only Dubai ones. Moorfields in a specialty eye hospital that is part of the UK’s National…