Alberta’s privacy commissioner is investigating after a computer virus hit Alberta Health Services and patient files were compromised. The virus, a new variant of a trojan horse program called Coreflood, was active from May 15 to 29, before it was detected and removed from the Edmonton network. Coreflood is “designed to steal data from an…
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Bits ‘n Pieces
In the justice system: A federal jury convicted Ronald Luis Bradshaw, a physician assistant, for his role in a $7.7 million Medicare fraud scheme. He was found guilty on all charged counts, including conspiracy to commit health care fraud, multiple counts of health fraud and aggravated identity theft for prescribing medically unnecessary durable medical equipment…
NA: HIV Testing Controversy
Wezi Tjaronda reports: The Legal Assistance Centre is taking a medical doctor and a lodge owner to court for allegedly testing 22 workers of the hotel for HIV without their consent in what could be the largest and maybe the first case in Namibia concerning non-consensual HIV testing. The 22 workers want to hold Dr Gerhard…
TX Security Guard Arrested for Hacking Hospital
Jesse William McGraw of Arlington, Texas, a/k/a “GhostExodus,” “PhantomExodizzmo,” “Howard Daniel Bertin,” “Howard William McGraw,” and “Howard Rogers,” was arrested by FBI agents last Friday on federal felony charges related to hacking into a hospital’s computer system. According to a statement by James T. Jacks, Acting United States Attorney for the Northern District of Texas,…
Bits ‘n Pieces
In the justice system: Marsha Billock-Strahm pled not guilty when she appeared in Toledo’s U.S. District Court June 22 to face charges of aggravated identity theft, false credit card applications, identity theft, and theft of mail while she was a rural mail carrier for the U.S. Postal Service. More. Yi Feng Reid and Yu Jane…
Sutter Employee Info Found on Broken Laptop
Thousands of Sacramento area Sutter Health employees are being warned that their personal information may have been leaked after a computer repair shop found the data on an old laptop that had been brought in for repair. Sutter Health is notifying about 6,000 former and current employees about the possibility that their social security numbers…