PITTSBURGH – A Texas resident has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on charges of Intentional Damage to a Protected Computer and Wire Fraud, United States Attorney Soo C. Song announced today. The two-count indictment, returned on Feb. 28, 2017, named Brandon A. Coughlin, 29, of Houston, Texas, as the sole defendant….
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Held for selling information on students
Chen Huizhi reports: A former marketing manager at the private educational service New Oriental has been arrested in connection with exchanging and trading tens of millions of items of personal contact information about students, Shanghai police said. The suspect, a 34-year-old man surnamed Gu, was reported to have claimed making a profit of about 10,000…
Lawsuit against Flowers Hospital over theft of personal information attains class action status
Lance Griffin has an update to another long-running data breach lawsuit: A federal judge has granted class action status to a civil lawsuit involving the theft of personal information at Flowers Hospital, believed to have occurred in 2013. The decision, if ultimately approved, means people who believe they have been adversely affected as a result…
DA launches criminal probe into St. Charles breach
The St. Charles Health System may think they’ve met all their obligations in their handling of an insider snooping incident, but Deschutes County District Attorney John Hummel says the matter should have been reported to them for criminal investigation. Now that’s interesting to think about. If a covered entity is convinced that an employee snooped…
Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario employee breached privacy of nearly 300 patients
Shaamini Yogaretnam reports: A former part-time instructor at Algonquin College and CHEO employee shared the private information of 283 patients with students, prompting the end of their employment at the college and a privacy investigation at the hospital, the Citizen has learned. On March 10, Adam Vaughan received a concerning letter in the mail about…
Affiliated Santé Group learned that patient info was exposed on GitHub for years
So there was another breach disclosed in January that I didn’t find out about until today. It’s an insider-error situation involving a software developer contractor who unintentionally exposed protected health information (PHI) of 550 patients on GitHub – for more than five years. Here is Affiliated Santé Group’s notification: January 30, 2017 RE: Notice of…