TVNZ reports: The Ministry for Children, Oranga Tamariki, has been forced to apologise to a foster family after one of its social workers tried to access their private medical records. The incident occurred after a foster child tried to attack them with a knife. However, the family says the attempted privacy breach has been even…
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Ca: Doctors snooped into Humboldt Broncos patient records, privacy commissioner finds
Collette Derworiz reports: Saskatchewan’s privacy commissioner has found several people inappropriately gained access to the electronic health records of the Humboldt Broncos team members involved in a deadly bus crash last April. Sixteen people were killed and 13 were injured in the crash between the junior hockey team’s bus and a semi trailer at a…
Chinese bank’s software chief jailed after finding way to withdraw US$1m in ‘free’ cash from ATMs
Stephen Chen reports: Qin Qisheng, 43, a former manager in Huaxia Bank’s technology development centre in Beijing, spotted a loophole in the bank’s core operating system that meant cash withdrawals made around midnight were not recorded. The bank accepted his explanation that he had simply been trying to test its internal security and the cash…
Two incidents involving Texas tax preparers may have put customers at risk of ID theft
Remember when it seemed like every day we were reading about ID theft and tax refund fraud schemes involving rogue employees of tax preparation firms? Yeah, well it’s still a thing. Here’s a story about a former rogue employee at Jackson Hewitt in McKinney, Texas. If you or someone you know may have used that…
AU: Officer jailed for using police database to access personal details of dozens of Tinder dates
Frances Bell reports: A former long-serving police officer has been jailed for six months for illegally accessing the personal details of almost 100 women to determine if they were “suitable” dates. Adrian Trevor Moore was a 28-year veteran of WA Police and was nominated as police officer of the year in 2011. The former senior…
Data of 14,200 Singapore patients with HIV leaked online by American fraudster who was deported from here
Chang AI-Lien reports: Confidential information of 14,200 people with HIV, including their names, contact details and medical information, has been stolen and leaked online, and the culprit is an American fraudster, the Ministry of Health revealed on Monday (Jan 28). Mikhy Farrera-Brochez, the man behind the leak, lived in Singapore from 2008 onward before being…