We had noted this breach on this site back in 2016, but here’s the follow-up. CBC reports: Alberta Health Services has come under fire from the province’s privacy commissioner for its role in the largest and longest-duration privacy breach AHS has ever experienced. The Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner reported Wednesday that a former AHS…
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Equifax engineer who designed breach portal gets 8 months of house arrest for insider trading
Catalin Cimpanu reports: A former Equifax engineer who coded parts of the company’s breach notification website for last year’s security incident was sentenced this week to eight months of home confinement and restitution of ill-gotten funds after using insider information about the Equifax breach to make over $75,000 from insider trading. The sentence was passed…
Former Hassan staffer accused of breaking into office, leaking info
Breanna Edelstein reports: Sen. Maggie Hassan’s former staffer Jackson Cosko is facing up to 50 years in federal prison amid accusations that he recently broke into the New Hampshire Democrat’s Washington office, leaked lawmakers’ personal information and threatened to do the same to others. Investigators said they were alerted to the 27-year-old’s alleged criminal activity after he used…
$400K settlement reached in Capital Health patient privacy breach
Richard Woodbury reports: A proposed settlement worth about $400,000 has been reached in a Nova Scotia class-action lawsuit relating to the improper access of patients’s personal health information by an employee of the former Capital District Health Authority, according to a law firm involved in the case. The breaches by former employee Katharine Zinck Lawrence, who accessed the…
Tech worker in Central Pennsylvania accused of stealing customers’ nude photos
Adam Hermann reports: A 23-year-old tech employee from York, Pennsylvania, is accused of stealing nude photos from customers’ cellphones. Cristian Adonis Santiago, 23, allegedly sent the personal photos to his own email account while working on customers’ phones in the store at an authorized retailer for Verizon Wireless, according to York Area Regional Police. Read…
Baer ‘Whistleblower’ Cleared by Top Court in Data-Theft Case
Hugo Miller reports: A former Julius Baer banker who leaked documents from a Cayman Islands subsidiary was cleared of breaking Swiss banking secrecy by Switzerland’s top court, creating possible problems for how the Alpine nation’s banks manage their foreign units. The Supreme Court voted 3-2 to reject the arguments of Zurich prosecutors who had appealed…