Jason Kelly and Megan Cruz report: A 27-year-old student and a 32-year-old employee at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University were arrested Thursday after police said they hacked into the school’s computer system. Investigators said Kevin Scott, a Ph.D. student, and Jeanette Barott, a communications specialist in the College of Engineering, hacked into the university’s computer system to…
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Mercy Medical Center – North Iowa notifies 1,900 patients after insider wrong-doing discovered
Ashley Stewart reports: Mercy Medical Center–North Iowa has notified about 1,900 individuals of a potential data breach involving their health records and personal information. In notification letters mailed to affected individuals and their families Nov. 26, patients were told their protected health information may have been “inappropriately accessed by an employee between July 2017 and…
Noida: Two leak legal firm’s data to former employee, held
TNN reports: Two business associates of a legal service provider have been arrested for allegedly leaking confidential data of the company and its clients, mostly based abroad, to a former employee. Officials of the company said they came to know that Umar Ikhlaq, who had resigned from the firm to join another Mumbai-based company in…
Valley Health sending letters to 857 patients possibly affected by security breach
Valley Health is one of those affected by the recently disclosed Inova Health System breach. You can read a report on the Valley Health aspect on Winchester Star.
UK: Medical worker in Kilmarnock suspended over data breach
BBC reports that the medical worker allegedly involved in a privacy breach reported last week at Crosshouse Hospital has now been suspended while the police and hospital continue to investigate the incident. Read more on BBC.
NJ: Former Chilton Medical Center employee sentenced on Computer Criminal Theft charges
There’s a follow-up to an insider-wrongdoing case previously reported on this site as affecting 4,600 patients of Chilton Medical Center. The following press release appeared October 26: Morris County Prosecutor Fredric M. Knapp, and Chief Brian C. Spring of the Pequannock Township Police Department announce the sentencing of Sergiu Jitcu, age 39, of Saddle Brook,…