The Progress-Index reports: VCU Health System is notifying about 4,700 individuals that their or their minor child’s electronic health information was inappropriately accessed. There is no indication that the private health information has been or will be used for any malicious purposes. The matter came to light on May 9, when an unusual pattern of…
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Former Brownsville Fire Chief Facing Security Breach Charges
KRGV reports: The former Brownsville fire chief is facing more charges. Carlos Elizondo was indicted by a grand jury in an 11-count case of computer security breach charges. He’s accused of logging into a computer network on 11 occasions to access the emergency reporting system portal for the Brownsville Fire Department without the city’s consent….
University of Kansas computer hacker granted probation, ordered to apologize to professors
Sara Shepherd reports: A former University of Kansas student who hacked into the school’s computer system and changed his failing grades to A’s was granted probation for the resulting felony convictions. He also must write letters apologizing to the professors he fraudulently signed in as. As the prosecutor and his defense attorney had requested in…
PA: Butler woman faces federal HIPAA indictments
Andrew Carr reports that Linda S. Kalina, 61, of Butler, Pennsylvania was indicted by a federal grand jury Thursday on charges of illegally obtaining and disclosing health information of another person. The records do not appear to be indexed on PACER yet, but according to Carr, Kalina had been employed as a patient information coordinator by the University…
UK: Sacked IT technician who hacked former school sentenced
Eagle Radio reports: A former employee of a private school in Leatherhead has been found guilty of a number of cyber-crime offences investigated by Surrey Police. Donald Bart-Williams was sacked from his role in the IT department at St Johns School, but used his specialist skills and knowledge to hack into the school system and…
Equifax Engineer Who Designed Breach Website Charged With Insider Trading
Catalin Cimpanu reports: The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has indicted a former Equifax engineer on charges of insider trading. According to court documents, Sudhakar Reddy Bonthu, 44, of Cumming, Georgia, worked for Equifax between September 2003 and March 2018. Starting September 2013, Bonthu worked as Production Development Manager of Software Engineering in Equifax’s…