Gabrielle Russon reports: A construction company says an employee who quit his job downloaded and stole a trove of confidential information before he left. On his way out the door, the ex-employee obtained documents such as the company’s bank account statements and tax returns as well as 401(k) information containing employees’ names, Social Security numbers,…
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Treating Healthcare’s Insider Threat
Gabriel Avner writes: There’s an old joke about why bank robbers rob banks. Because that’s where the money is. Given the valuable assets under their care, banks, fintech, insurance, and other financial institutions have understood that they have to take special care to avoid data breaches and other threats. But if the past week’s steady…
Long Island Man Convicted of over $600 Million Health Care Fraud, Wire Fraud and Identity Theft Scheme
July 13, 2022 — Earlier today, a federal jury in Central Islip returned a guilty verdict on eight counts of a superseding indictment charging Mathew James with perpetrating an over $600 million health care fraud scheme, which also included wire fraud and aggravated identity theft charges. The verdict followed a six-week trial before United States…
Software Engineer Joshua Schulte Convicted In Biggest Theft Ever Of CIA Secrets
Joshua Schulte, who called himself “Bad Ass,” and who was also called “Voldemort” by colleagues in the C.I.A.’s Operations Support Branch, was convicted by a federal court jury in New York of sending the CIA’s “Vault 7” cyber-warfare tools to WikiLeaks in 2017. Larry Neumeister and Tom Hays of AP report: A former CIA software…
Ca: How the court bolstered an insurer’s exclusion for privacy breach
David Gambrill reports: Acting recklessly in breaching the confidential medical files of patients effectively falls within a hospital insurer’s commercial policy exclusion for committing an ‘intentional act,’ Ontario’s top court has ruled. The Ontario Court of Appeal found a hospital insurer, the Healthcare Insurance Reciprocal of Canada, does not have a duty to defend a…
WY: Former Employee Inappropriately Accessed Cheyenne Regional Medical Center Patient Health Records
Phoenixville Hospital was just one of two reports this week involving employees behaving badly by accessing patient files without a legitimate purpose. On July 6, Cheyenne Regional Medical Center in Wyoming revealed that a former employee had inappropriately accessed several patients’ personal health records between August 31, 2020, and May 26, 2022. In this case,…