This is a follow-up to the University of Texas Medical Branch breach previously reported here and here. United States Attorney John E. Murphy announced that in Waco, 34-year-old Katina Candrick of LaGrange, Texas, was sentenced to 15 years in federal prison and ordered to pay $163,185.19 restitution for unlawful possession of fraudulent identification documents and…
Category: Education Sector
Insider wrongdoing a low point for High Point University
In late June, High Point University in North Carolina discovered that an employee who had access to personal information of students had misused the credit card information of nine individuals for fraudulent purposes. The university notified the Maryland Attorney General’s Office on July 15 that they were notifying 634 Maryland residents of the breach. The employee…
University of Oklahoma Neurology Clinic notifies almost 20,000 of security breach
In the process of updating PHIprivacy.net to reflect breaches newly disclosed by the U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services (HHS), I found reference to a breach for which I was able to find a companion statement. The University of Oklahoma-Tulsa, Neurology Clinic recently notified HHS of an incident affecting 19,264 patients. According to HHS’s…
NC: Researcher Yankaskas appeals pay cut, demotion
More details are emerging about why the breach involving the UNC-Chapel Hill Carolina Mammography Registry led to consequences for the researcher. C. Ryan Barber reports: […] School of Medicine Office of Information Systems officials first alerted the University to the breach in July 2009 after uncovering a virus and potential security breach on the Carolina…
School Lunch Risk: Audit of Metro Schools in Nashville Reveals Students’ SSN Not Adequately Protected
Deanna Lambert reports: Channel 4 News has learned Social Security numbers of Metro Nashville Public Schools students were not adequately protected, and the slip-up was traced back to the lunch line. In some Metro Schools, students can’t get lunch without going through a computer. An audit suggests that Metro Schools needs more protection and better…
Cancer researcher fights UNC demotion over data breach (updated)
Gregory Childress reports that a data breach had significant consequences for a researcher. Because I don’t recall ever seeing such consequences before, I think this is pretty newsworthy: A UNC cancer researcher is fighting a demotion and pay cut she received after a security breach in the medical study she directs. Bonnie Yankaskas, a professor in…