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Sg: Ex-financial adviser fined for data breach

Posted on August 17, 2017 by Dissent

K.C. Vijayan reports: A former financial consultant was fined $1,000 for breaching data protection laws by disposing of clients’ insurance policy-related documents in a rubbish bin in a residential estate. The Commissioner for Data Protection had launched a probe after receiving a complaint on Oct 10 last year that Prudential folders were recovered from a…

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UK: Hospital staff sacked for prying on patients’ medical records in Suffolk and Colchester hospitals

Posted on August 17, 2017 by Dissent

Tom Bristow reports: Hospital staff have been dismissed and suspended for looking up patients’ confidential medical information. They are among hundreds of data protection breaches reported by the NHS in Suffolk and North Essex in the last two years. No harm was done in the majority of cases but the most common serious breaches involved…

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UK: Midwifery assistant guilty of spying on 29 patients’ medical records from Harwich and Colchester

Posted on August 11, 2017 by Dissent

Vicky Gayle reports: A midwifery assistant who described herself as nosy snooped into 29 people’s medical records including a man who had taken an overdose and parents of her children’s friends. Brioney Woolfe was reported to the head of midwifery at Colchester General Hospital when someone discovered their medical records had been shared with her…

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Revenge Hacks Cost Former Employee 34 Months in Prison, $1.1 Million in Damages

Posted on August 11, 2017 by Dissent

There’s a follow-up on a case involving a vengeful former employee  that I’ve previously noted. Catalin Cimpanu reports: Brian P. Johnson, 44, of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, will have to spend the next 34 months in federal prison and pay $1,134,828 in damages after hacking his former employer shortly after being fired. According to court documents,…

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Man Who Hacked his Former Employer Gets 18-Month Prison Sentence

Posted on August 7, 2017 by Dissent

Dark Reading reports: A federal court sentenced a Tennessee man to an 18-month prison sentence and ordered him to pay $172,394 in restitution, following his breach into a former employer’s network and copying of emails in order to give his new company a competitive edge, according to the US Department of Justice. Jason Needham, 45,…

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Former Air Force member sentenced for stealing fellow members’ information

Posted on August 5, 2017 by Dissent

Luke Wilusz reports: A former U.S. Air Force member was sentenced to four years in prison this week for stealing and distributing personal information from other service members. A federal jury found 28-year-old Ronnie Allen II guilty earlier this year of two counts each of of identity theft, aggravated identity theft and access device fraud,…

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