Rapaport News reports: India’s Gems and Jewellery Export Promotion Council (GJEPC) and the Bharat Diamond Bourse (BDB) have formed a joint committee to investigate the alteration of Gemological Institute of America (GIA) diamond grading reports, according to The Times of India (TOI). The GIA last week published the names and suspended the accounts of 19 firms implicated in the…
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Two arrests made after confidential information on pope is stolen
Shelley Chandler reports: Investigators with the Vatican City police force arrested a high-ranking member of the clergy along with a Vatican employee for leaking confidential documents. Read more on Wireless Goodness.
NV: Lab Tech Charged With Stealing Patient Information And Using It To Apply For Credit Cards
LAS VEGAS, Nev. – A local woman who worked as a laboratory technician at an unnamed Las Vegas pediatric cardiology practice has been indicted by the federal grand jury on charges that she unlawfully obtained the personal identifying information of a patient and used it to apply for credit cards without the patient’s knowledge, announced…
Ex-Goldman Banker and Fed Employee Will Plead Guilty in Document Leak
Ben Protess and Peter Eavis report: A former Goldman Sachs banker suspected of taking confidential documents from a source inside the government has agreed to plead guilty, a rare criminal action on Wall Street, where Goldman itself is facing an array of regulatory penalties over the leak. The banker and his source, who at the time of…
UK: Thousands of Morrisons employees to sue bosses over huge data breach
It’s unusual to see a data breach lawsuit in the U.K., so this one will be one to watch. The Yorkshire Evening Post reports that approximately 2,000 employees are suing supermarket chain Morrisons over an insider data breach that involved the theft and posting online of the financial and personal details of 99,998 fellow employees by a…
SC: Employee fired after Bon Secours St. Francis Health System data breach discovered
Liv Osby reports: An employee at Bon Secours St. Francis Health System has been terminated after hospital officials discovered that she had inappropriately accessed personal patient information. Hospital employees began reporting in July that their insurers had recorded unpaid balances and charges for a prescription cream, officials said in a statement. An investigation concluded on…