And while we’re talking about insider breaches, here’s a case from the U.K. From the Information Commissioner’s Office: A nursing auxiliary has been fined for accessing a patient’s medical records without a valid legal reason. Marian Waddell, 61, was working at the Royal Gwent Hospital in Newport when she unlawfully accessed the records of the…
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Ca: Pharmacist Given Conditional Sentence for Health Information Breaches
Protenus’s monthly breach barometer reports attempt to hammer home the need to address and prevent insider breaches. The problem is not unique to the U.S.. Here’s a recent case out of Canada: A pharmacist pleaded guilty to accessing health information in contravention of the Health Information Act (HIA) and received a conditional sentence order on October 16,…
Cyta fined for allowing employee to leak personal data
State owned telecommunications authority (Cyta) was fined on Wednesday €10,000 for violating personal data, after an employee gave confidential data of over 200 customers to a retired police officer. The fine was handed down by the commissioner for personal data protection, Irini Loizidou. Read more on Cyprus Mail.
Alabama Resident Convicted in Stolen Identity Refund Fraud Schemes That Sought $26 Million
This case has been going on for years. You can find previous coverage of it on this site either by searching for individual defendants’ names or searching for “Alabama Department of Corrections.” From the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Middle District of Alabama on November 9: A Phenix City, Alabama resident was convicted today by a federal…
UK: Warning for workers after charity employee is prosecuted for data protection offences
Speaking of charity organizations and breaches, here’s the flip side of an external hack: an insider who doesn’t follow the rules of data protection. From the Information Commissioner’s Office: People working with personal information have been warned they have to obey strict privacy laws after a charity worker was prosecuted for making his own copies…
Feds: Ex-employee targeted Minnesota company with ‘hacker-for-hire’
Mark Reilly reports: Federal prosecutors say a cyberattack on a Monticello-based technology company was prompted by a former worker who hired outside hackers to bring down its websites. The Star Tribune reports on the charges against John Kelsey Gammell, a former Minnesota resident who allegedly hired a hacking-for-hire service in Israel to target Washburn Computer…