An employee of Catskill Regional Medical Center in Harris was fired because she looked at 431 patient files for which she did not have permission. “She was nosey,” said hospital President Steven Ruwoldt said Thursday. There was no malicious intent, he said of the woman, who worked in the medical records department. The files she…
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2 hospital employees allegedly steal from patient, 79
Kelly Green reports: A 79-year-old woman was the victim of credit card and check theft by two hospital employees in separate incidents during her stay in a Scottsdale hospital, police said. The victim was receiving treatment for a heart condition at Scottsdale Healthcare Shea in December 2008 when the two employees allegedly stole credit cards…
DE: Guilty plea entered in debit data theft
Sean O’Sullivan reports: One of two co-defendants in a complicated debit-card skimming operation that took in more than $500,000 from at least 70 victims pleaded guilty Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Wilmington. […] According to Assistant U.S. Attorney Ilana H. Eisenstein, Grigoryan and Harutyunyan placed a skimmer device inside a keypad at Rite Aid…
CO: Hospital worker says she stole 20 identities a week
In today’s installment of what has become a bit of a soap opera of a breach, Deborah Sherman reports: In an exclusive interview with 9Wants to Know, the woman facing charges for stealing patient records from St. Anthony Central Hospital says she might have helped to steal many more identities than previously thought. Dawn Philbin,…
Academic records inadvertently released
Tyler O’Neil reports: The presidents of Drake’s eight Greek fraternities were surprised to receive an e-mail in late January from the director of fraternity and sorority life with the grades of every fraternity man at Drake listed in an Excel spreadsheet. Drake’s four sorority presidents received similar e-mails with the complete listing of every sorority…
CO: Warrant: Mother stole medical records to protect daughter
This story just gets weirder and weirder…. A hospital worker inside St. Anthony Central Hospital says Paul Simmons and his friends made her steal personal information about patients or said they would kill her daughter, according to arrest warrants released Wednesday. Read more on 9News.com