Nader Issa reports: A former Chicago Public Schools worker is facing several felony charges after officials allege the worker stole personal information on about 80,000 employees, volunteers and vendors from a CPS database. The former worker, Kristi Sims, was arrested in the case on Thursday, and officers recovered the stolen files after executing search warrants,…
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Virginia Hospital Must Answer for Snooping Employees’ Privacy Breach
From Bloomberg Law: A Virginia health-care system will have to answer claims that it is liable for its employees’ snooping into a patient’s confidential health information. A Virginia trial court shouldn’t have dismissed Lindsey Parker’s complaint alleging Carilion Healthcare Corp. and Carilion Clinic should be held liable for their employees’ wrongdoing, the Virginia Supreme Court…
A Tech Billionaire and The Case of The Bumbling Blackmailers
Saritha Rai reports: The Indian state of Uttar Pradesh has a reputation as a rough place, with one of the highest levels of crime in the country. In May, a dozen local politicians received WhatsApp messages that threatened harm to their families unless they paid $14,000. Yet even by local standards, an extortion plot that’s…
Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services notifies 10,400 whose data improperly retained by contractor
JEFFERSON CITY, MO – On October 24, 2018, the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services (“Department”) mailed over 10,400 letters to individuals informing them that the Department recently discovered a breach of security of their personal information. The breach occurred because, sometime before September 30, 2016, an information technology contractor for the State of…
178 Albertans notified about privacy breach by former Alberta Health Services employee
Michael Franklin reports: The AHS has informed a group of Albertans that details about their health records, that were supposed to remain private, were recently accessed by a former AHS employee. The agency says it notified the affected individuals on Wednesday. The inappropriate access took place between February and July of this year at Calgary’s…
Security company sued after alleged information leak
Oops. I missed this one when WTOC first reported it on October 17th: Dozens of social security numbers connected to work hours and rates of pay are at risk of being used by criminals because of the actions of a security firm supervisor. Those are the allegations in a lawsuit filed by a Savannah law…