John Karlovec reports: Geauga County employees and family members were alerted Dec. 15 to a data security incident involving possible unauthorized access to and acquisition of their personal information provided in connection with their employment with the county. […] On Oct. 25, law enforcement executed a search warrant at the rental home of former Geauga…
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NYU Langone Health Notifies Patients of Improperly Disposed Binder Containing Patient Information
NYU Langone Health notified patients this week that a binder containing a log with information related to presurgical insurance authorizations from NYU Langone Health Pediatric Surgery Associates was mistakenly recycled by NYU Langone’s cleaning company on October 17, 2017. Patient social security numbers were not included and therefore are not at risk, and there is…
UK: Former nurse sentenced for cyber stalking campaign
A 27-year-old who carried out a campaign of harassment against a number of women has been sentenced to 22 months in prison, made the subject of a non-harassment order and placed on the sex offenders register. Adele Rennie, a former nurse, has admitted using a host of invented aliases to carry out a series of…
Former hotel clerk arrested for profiting from guests’ info
KTBS reports: A former hotel clerk was arrested for using information obtained through his job to fraudulently rent rooms and receive food deliveries, said Sheriff Steve Prator. Between April and June 2017, Delvin Darrell Raphiel, 28, used a childhood friend’s personal information to set up a hotel honors account through which he reserved rooms at…
Chicago Man Charged With Hacking Company’s Servers After Termination
NBC reports: A Chicago man was charged with damaging the servers of a north suburban industrial supply company after his employment was terminated in February 2016. Edward Soybel, 34, was charged with 10 counts of intentionally damaging protection computers, one count of attempting to cause damage to protected computers and one count of attempting to…
Former Manitoba Health employee snooped on records of family, senior public officials: ombudsman
CBC News reports: The province’s ombudsman says Manitoba Health didn’t do enough to mitigate the risks of a privacy breach. That was Charlene Paquin’s finding in a report detailing the investigation of an employee who accessed the medical records of his estranged daughter, colleagues and some senior public officials. The ombudsman’s report, released Tuesday, included 11 recommendations, including hiring…