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Virginia Hospital Must Answer for Snooping Employees’ Privacy Breach

Posted on November 2, 2018 by Dissent

From Bloomberg Law: A Virginia health-care system will have to answer claims that it is liable for its employees’ snooping into a patient’s confidential health information. A Virginia trial court shouldn’t have dismissed Lindsey Parker’s complaint alleging Carilion Healthcare Corp. and Carilion Clinic should be held liable for their employees’ wrongdoing, the Virginia Supreme Court…

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A Tech Billionaire and The Case of The Bumbling Blackmailers

Posted on October 31, 2018 by Dissent

Saritha Rai reports: The Indian state of Uttar Pradesh has a reputation as a rough place, with one of the highest levels of crime in the country. In May, a dozen local politicians received WhatsApp messages that threatened harm to their families unless they paid $14,000. Yet even by local standards, an extortion plot that’s…

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Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services notifies 10,400 whose data improperly retained by contractor

Posted on October 27, 2018 by Dissent

JEFFERSON CITY, MO – On October 24, 2018, the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services (“Department”) mailed over 10,400 letters to individuals informing them that the Department recently discovered a breach of security of their personal information.  The breach occurred because, sometime before September 30, 2016, an information technology contractor for the State of…

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178 Albertans notified about privacy breach by former Alberta Health Services employee

Posted on October 27, 2018 by Dissent

Michael Franklin reports: The AHS has informed a group of Albertans that details about their health records, that were supposed to remain private, were recently accessed by a former AHS employee. The agency says it notified the affected individuals on Wednesday. The inappropriate access took place between February and July of this year at Calgary’s…

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Security company sued after alleged information leak

Posted on October 25, 2018 by Dissent

Oops. I missed this one when WTOC first reported it on October 17th: Dozens of social security numbers connected to work hours and rates of pay are at risk of being used by criminals because of the actions of a security firm supervisor. Those are the allegations in a lawsuit filed by a Savannah law…

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Byram Healthcare notifies patients about rogue insider incident

Posted on October 24, 2018 by Dissent

Byram Healthcare is a firm that provides disposable medical supplies. They were acquired in 2017 by Owens & Minor. On October 22, Byram sent notification letters to patients whose data may have been stolen and/or misused by a former employee. Byram learned of the former employee’s wrongdoing when they were contacted by law enforcement. In…

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