Lisa Joy reports: An east-central Alberta woman feels vindicated after winning a wrongful termination case against a medical centre society where she worked as a receptionist. The woman claimed she was terminated without just cause and publicly humiliated. Red Deer Judge Andreassen agreed and awarded her $25,600 in compensation. The Consort and District Medical Centre…
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AU: Westpac employee gave customer passwords to mortgage broker in serious data breach
Paul Farrell reports: A Westpac manager handed over the banking passwords of 80 customer accounts to a mortgage broker, giving them direct access to personal bank accounts in a serious breach of customer privacy. It is one of a catalogue of 32 breaches Australia’s four largest banks disclosed to the Office of the Australian Information…
UK: Daniel Storr allegedly promised colleague commission for every sale from stolen data
The Daily Echo reports: A healthcare insurance salesman bribed his former colleague to steal the personal details of almost 50 customers, a court has heard. Daniel Storr, 32, promised Aden Embling a cut of his commission for every sale he made from the stolen data, which included names, addresses, dates of birth and phone numbers,…
Suspicion of leaking sensitive information from IDF: “Details of hundreds of thousands of soldiers exposed”
Note: this is a Google translation of an article that originally appeared in Hebrew at https://news.walla.co.il/item/3183496: Four people are suspected of setting up a system for trading information about candidates for military service, according to an investigation conducted by the Ministry of Justice’s Privacy Protection Authority. In the course of the investigation, a systematic violation of…
Ca: Flatlands man says health records accessed without authorization
Kevin White reports: A man from the Restigouche region says people should be able to expect privacy when it comes to their health records, even if they live in a small town where everyone seems to know everything about everyone. This after Mark Firth of Flatlands says an employee at the Campbellton Regional Hospital accessed…
WI: Adams County clerk suspected in connection with data breach affecting more than 250,000
Well, I said that the more I learned about it, a breach affecting more than 250,000 Adams County residents sounded like a bad one. Its “badness” was just confirmed, it seems. WKOW reports: Adams County officials are trying to remove the county clerk from office, after she’s suspected of being connected with a data breach. According to our Madison…