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…
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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…
Miami Springs Senior High student hacked into teachers’ computers and changed dozens of grades
WSVN reports: A cybersecurity breach at a South Florida school. A student hacked into teachers’ computers — but was never criminally charged. 7’s Brian Entin investigates. A new school year is about to start at Miami Springs Senior High — but a hacking incident last school year has the district tightening security. […] 7News has…
Convicted of health care fraud, de-licensed physician just steals another doctor’s identity….
In June, I posted an item about how BCBS of Illinois was notifying people after a vendor informed them that law enforcement had alerted them that a vendor’s employee was not a licensed physician but an identity thief. That story did not seem to get a lot of press attention, but subsequent revelations named the physician…
Former JP Morgan Chase Bank Employee Sentenced to Four Years in Prison for Selling Customer Account Information
August 10 – Earlier today, in federal court in Brooklyn, Peter Persaud, a former personal banker at JP Morgan Chase Bank, was sentenced by United States District Judge Eric N. Vitaliano to 48 months’ imprisonment for aggravated identity theft in connection with access device fraud. Persaud pleaded guilty to these charges on March 7, 2017….