In case you were looking for yet another reminder of the insider threat in the healthcare sector, here’s a report from WBNS in Ohio: Authorities in Hilliard are investigating a widespread fraud and identity theft case involving a former employee of a local addiction treatment center who allegedly sold patients’ private data on the dark…
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Za: Cyber extortionist sentenced to eight years in jail
Admire Moyo reports on an insider wrongdoing case in South Africa: In a landmark case, a man was last week sentenced to eight years in jail for contravening South Africa’s Cyber Crimes Act. Lucky Majangandile Erasmus (36), a former employee of Ecentric Payment Systems, was sentenced by the Specialised Commercial Crimes Court after entering into…
Data breach of patient info ends in firing of Miami hospital employee
Michelle Marchante provides today’s reminder of the insider threat: More than 2,000 patients at Jackson Health System had their personal data, including names, address and medical information, accessed in a lengthy breach that spanned nearly five years. The data breach was conducted by a Jackson employee who accessed the information to promote a personal healthcare…
North Shore University Sleep Disorders Center employee charged with secretly recording patients in restrooms
On May 23, the North Shore University Sleep Disorders Center in New York notified HHS that 13,332 patients were affected by a breach that it coded as “Unauthorized Access/Disclosure” of data located “Other.” While the number affected might not seem unusually disturbing in this day and age of big breaches, the circumstances of the breach…
Junior Defence Contractor Arrested For Leaking Indian Naval Secrets To Suspected Pakistani Spies
Here’s yet another insider threat report from a defense agency to end the week. This one is from India. NewsMobile reports: A 27-year-old junior defence contractor has been arrested for allegedly leaking restricted information on Indian Navy warships and submarines to suspected Pakistani intelligence agents, Maharashtra’s Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) said in a statement issued late…
HHS OCR Settles HIPAA Security Rule Investigation of BayCare Health System for $800k and Corrective Action Plan
HHS OCR has settled another enforcement action involving the HIPAA Security Rule. From their press release yesterday, it sounds like an insider wrongdoing case. In its formal resolution agreement, the government states that on October 23, 2018, OCR received a complaint alleging that on October 8, 2018, an unknown third party accessed her printed and…