TNN reports: Two business associates of a legal service provider have been arrested for allegedly leaking confidential data of the company and its clients, mostly based abroad, to a former employee. Officials of the company said they came to know that Umar Ikhlaq, who had resigned from the firm to join another Mumbai-based company in…
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Valley Health sending letters to 857 patients possibly affected by security breach
Valley Health is one of those affected by the recently disclosed Inova Health System breach. You can read a report on the Valley Health aspect on Winchester Star.
UK: Medical worker in Kilmarnock suspended over data breach
BBC reports that the medical worker allegedly involved in a privacy breach reported last week at Crosshouse Hospital has now been suspended while the police and hospital continue to investigate the incident. Read more on BBC.
NJ: Former Chilton Medical Center employee sentenced on Computer Criminal Theft charges
There’s a follow-up to an insider-wrongdoing case previously reported on this site as affecting 4,600 patients of Chilton Medical Center. The following press release appeared October 26: Morris County Prosecutor Fredric M. Knapp, and Chief Brian C. Spring of the Pequannock Township Police Department announce the sentencing of Sergiu Jitcu, age 39, of Saddle Brook,…
OH: Little Miami High School profile hacked on Google
Audra Levy reports: If you went looking for the profile of Little Miami High School on Google on Thursday, you would have been in for a surprise. Someone hacked the profile and renamed the school “Gay Night Club For Teens”. That “someone” appears to have used the school network, and the administration seems to think…
Medical records of 1,216 Upstate University Hospital patients breached by former employee
James T. Mulder reports: An Upstate University Hospital employee inappropriately accessed the medical records of 1,216 patients without a work or job-related reason. Upstate announced it is contacting affected patients and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services about the privacy breach. The former employee accessed the records between Nov. 3, 2016 and Oct….