So we’ve all read breach reports about employees or former employees stealing patient data to go start a new competitive practice or to help their new employer. And a blog post on Dental Practice Marketing and Management by Jim Du Molin about a dental hygienist stealing patient data for her new place of work read…
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RoxSan Pharmacy Notifies Patients of Breach That Occurred in 2015
There are a number of unanswered questions about an incident disclosed by RoxSan Pharmacy today. See what you think, starting with their press release of today: As part of its commitment to patient privacy, RoxSan Pharmacy (“RoxSan”) notified 1,049 patients of a potential breach of unsecured personal patient protected health information. RoxSan is notifying affected…
Lawsuit against Rensselaer County partially revived on medical privacy issue
There’s an update to an insider-wrongdoing lawsuit that I first noted back in September, 2013, after some employees at Rensselaer County Jail filed suit against their employer for snooping in their medical records. As I’ve reported in the past, the breaches occurred against a backdrop where the county jail uses Samaritan Hospital to provide services…
California DMV worker used driver’s license records to steal identities, federal government says
Sam Stanton reports: A worker at California’s Department of Motor Vehicles, which is the subject on an ongoing federal bribery probe into the misuse of department computer files, has been accused of using driver’s license records in an elaborate mail and identity theft case. Sarah Laray Sandoval, 39, was a DMV employee with access to…
Accident recovery firm employee who sold personal data to nuisance callers is fined
A former worker at an accident repair firm who downloaded and sold the personal data of motorists to nuisance callers has been fined. Phillip Bagnall, 33, of Scotta Road, Eccles, Greater Manchester, was an employee of Nationwide Accident Repair Services Limited (NARS) when he was found to be accessing suspicious volumes of customer data from…
Personal data of 500,000 Nova Poshta clients allegedly leaked to dark web
Kostiantyn Tsentsura reports: The largest private delivery company in Ukraine, Nova Poshta, has been accused of leaking the personal information of hundreds of thousands of its users to the dark web. […] According to Papyshev, the seller is offering two databases: the first has 500,000 records of clients, with their full names, phone numbers, city…