Ian Fullerton reports the latest development in a case that I’ve been following on PHIprivacy.net and this site since August 2013: Advocate Medical Group has been cleared in a case charging the organization with compromising patient privacy following a 2013 breach of its records. The lawsuit alleged that patients of Advocate had been put at…
Category: Theft
Ca: Privacy breach class-action suit filed against Kiewit
There’s a follow-up to a breach previously noted on this site. The Telegram reports: St. John’s lawyer Bob Buckingham has filed a class-action lawsuit against Kiewit Energy for a privacy breach which happened earlier this year. According to the statement of claim and an accompanying news release, a laptop containing personal payroll information for Kiewit…
Falciani court date set over bank data theft charges
SwissInfo.ch reports that a former HSBC employee is closer to standing trial on data theft charges in a case that has had international repercussions: The ex-HSBC employee accused of stealing secret data from Swiss bank accounts is to go on trial in Switzerland in October. Hervé Falciani worked in IT at the bank’s Geneva branch…
Update: SterlingBackcheck breach impacted 100,000
On August 4, this site reported a stolen laptop containing background checks. The laptop belonged to SterlingBackcheck, and was stolen from an employee’s car. More details on the numbers are starting to emerge. Today, we learned that the firm updated its report to the New Hampshire Attorney General’s to indicate that 734 New Hampshire residents…
Former U.S. Postal Service Employee Sentenced To Federal Prison For Theft Of Postal Funds And Identity Theft
BATON ROUGE, LA –United States Attorney Walt Green announced that Chief U.S. District Judge Brian A. Jackson sentenced LARONDA D. MOORE, age 38, of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, yesterday to serve 32 months in federal prison for her conviction for aggravated identity theft and misappropriation of postal funds. Following her release from prison, MOORE will be…
UK: ICO issues £180,000 civil monetary penalty in wake of data breaches
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has issued civil monetary penalty (CMP) of £180,000 to the Money Shop in the wake of two incidents in 2014 that led to a fuller investigation of the Money Shop’s data protection policies and procedures. As described in the notice, on April 16, 2014, a Money Shop store in Lurgan, Northern Ireland was…