A long-running insider snooping breach was first detected by the health authority last year. When the agency investigated, they found an employee had snooped in the records of 880 clients over a period of seven years. The Estevan Mercury reports that as a result of the incident and their findings, the authority has implemented a…
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Il: Group charged with dissemination of privileged information of women they sought to prevent from getting abortions
Insider breaches are global, and attempts to stop women from controlling their own bodies are also, sadly, global. Gilad Morag reports from Israel: The cyber division of State Attorney’s Office charged at the Tel Aviv District Court a medical secretary at a private Be’er Sheva clinic as well as two employees of the Hidabroot for…
Personal data of 50 lakh ex-servicemen may have been breached, armed forces veteran calls it chilling
JKR staff report: In a sensational revelation, an RTI reply has indicated that a private vendor previously employed by the ministry of defence may have walked away with the personal data of 50 lakh ex-servicemen. The reply by the MoD, headed by Nirmala Sitharaman, raises several worrying questions in light of the latest reports of…
UK: Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership apologizes for data breach
Natalie Tipping reports: A Kent NHS Trust has apologised to patients after their records were accessed inappropriately, leading to a police probe into the incident. Letters have been sent out to patients of the Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust (KMPT) detailing that a member of staff has been dismissed from their…
Oregon tax agency employee copied personal data of 36,000 people
Hillary Borrud reports: An employee at Oregon’s tax collection agency copied the data of 36,000 people, including social security numbers, and stored the files to a personal account, the state announced on Friday. The Department of Revenue detected the breach on Feb. 23 and moved quickly to remove the files from the employee’s cloud account,…
Former nursing home employee admits stealing residents’ credit card numbers
Sam Clancy reports: A 29-year-old woman who worked for a St. Louis County nursing home pleaded guilty to stealing credit card numbers from the home’s residents. Shaniece Borney pleaded guilty to a credit card fraud scheme while she worked at NHC Health Care in 2016 and 2017, a press release from the Department of Justice…