Jeff Bell reports on an insider-wrongdoing breach: A former Island Health employee has been linked to a privacy breach at Nanaimo Regional General Hospital, affecting 102 people. “This situation is unacceptable and we wholeheartedly apologize to everyone who has been affected by this situation,” Island Health said in a statement. “They are all being notified…
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N.W.T. gov’t and former employee settle case over alleged privacy breach
Sidney Cohen reports: A former manager in the N.W.T. Justice Department has been ordered to destroy all records he has about his old colleagues, putting an end to a months-long skirmish over employee privacy between him and the territorial government. “[The government] sued me, we settled, I think I’m done … for now,” Donn MacDougall…
Sacked IT guy annihilates 23 of his ex-employer’s AWS servers
Lisa Vaas reports: An employee-from-hell has been jailed after he got fired (after a measly four weeks), ripped off a former colleague’s login, steamrolled through his former employer’s Amazon Web Services (AWS) accounts, and torched 23 servers. […] As the Mirror reported during Needham’s January trial, the IT worker was sacked after a month of…
NJ: Teens hacked school computers to change grades, but they failed
Olivia Rizzo reports: Several high school students are in hot water after they were able to log into their schools’ computer systems to change grades and attendance records. A letter was sent out Wednesday to parents of high school students in the Elizabeth Public School system informing them of the data breach. “Unfortunately, a number…
Counselor for North Haven Substance Abuse Center Stole Patient Identity for Cable, Internet: Police
NBC in Connecticut reports: Police have arrested an employee of a substance use disorder treatment center in North Haven who is accused of stealing patients’ identities to get services like cable and internet. North Haven police arrested 39-year-old Kimberly Telford, of New Haven, who they said was a counselor at an outpatient center. She is…
OH: 13-year-old student accused of hacking teacher’s account, making hit list of fellow students
WSYX/WTTE reports: A 13-year-old student at the Columbus City Preparatory School for Boys is under investigation after he reportedly used a teacher’s credentials to get into the district’s system, created a website with information about his fellow students, and made threats. Columbus Police say they received a report on March 15th that the student had…