Steven Trader reports: Columbia Sportswear Co. on Wednesday filed a lawsuit in Oregon federal court accusing a former employee in its information technology department of illegally hacking into its computer system after he resigned and assessing highly confidential company information for the benefit of the company’s business partner that hired him. You can read more…
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Newnan Woman Sentenced for Student Financial Aid Fraud; Used Patients’ Info
NEWNAN, Ga. – Andrea R. Williams has been sentenced to six years and seven months in federal prison for wire fraud and aggravated identity theft for using stolen identities to file dozens of fraudulent federal student aid applications. According to U.S. Attorney Horn, the charges and other information presented in court: From in or about…
Vanderbilt University Medical Center Security Breach Affects 3,000 Patients, Officials Say
AP reports: Vanderbilt University Medical Center officials say the hospital has had a security breach where two employees accessed medical records of more than 3,000 patients. The Tennessean reports the hospital has sent out letters to patients whose personal information was inappropriately viewed. Two patient transporters accessed information that included names, birth dates and medical identification…
Social Security whistleblower waiting for answers in privacy breach case
M.D. Kittle reports: The investigation into an alleged breach of a Social Security Administration employee’s private records appears to be going nowhere fast, even as another probe found wide-ranging misconduct in a Madison SSA office. The employee, a whistleblower at the SSA’s Office of Disability Adjudication and Review, told Wisconsin Watchdog that a federal investigation of the alleged records…
WV: 7,445 patients notified of University Healthcare information breach
The Journal reports: More than 7,000 patients of WVU Medicine University Healthcare were notified of a breach of unsecured personal patient protected health information after discovering that an employee had accessed patient information without authorization. University Healthcare officials became aware Jan. 17, of an FBI and local law enforcement investigation into the unauthorized access, use…
Opening Appellate Brief filed in U.S. v. Thomas
Tor Ekeland writes: U.S v Michael Thomas, No. 16-41264 (5th Cir.) Last night in the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals we filed the Opening Appellant Brief in U.S. v. Michael Thomas. In June of 2016, in an important CFAA case regarding the definition of unauthorized damage, a jury convicted Michael Thomas of a single count felony violation for causing damage…