YLE News reports: The Helsinki and Uusimaa Hospital District (HUS) has discovered that a former employee, who served as a practical nurse within the district, breached the privacy of nearly 1,000 patients. The case was confirmed by HUS Administrative Chief Medical Officer (AVMO) Teppo Heikkilä, who said the nurse gained access to the files through the…
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Tesla notifies employees of data breach
Barret Loux reports: Tesla has started notifying current and former employees who were affected by a data breach that occurred in May. The company conducted an investigation and found that two former employees had misappropriated confidential information in violation of Tesla’s IT security and data protection policies. As a result, Tesla has filed lawsuits against…
Insider-Wrongdoing in the Healthcare Sector
Michelle Del Guercio writes: On June 8, the Health Sector Cybersecurity Coordination Center (“HC3”) published Types of Cyber Threat Actors That Threaten Healthcare. In that publication, they identify five basic types of insider threats: careless or negligent workers malicious insiders inside agents disgruntled employees third parties In 2016, when Protenus and DataBreaches first began collaborating on…
Arizona man who extorted Georgia Tech sentenced to prison
ATLANTA, July 27 – Ronald Bell has been sentenced to two years and nine months in prison for extorting Georgia Tech. Bell recruited a security guard to falsely claim that the guard witnessed an assault by its basketball coach in exchange for part of the extortion payout he expected to receive from the university. “Ronald…
TX: City of Odessa dealing with data breach
Micah Allen reports: According to the City of Odessa, mayor Joven was advised that the city dealt with a serious data breach. It was discovered that accounts assigned to a terminated high-ranking employee have been recently accessed, and sensitive information was transferred. Read more at CBS7, who will be reporting more on this story later…
UK: Man jailed for more than three years for attempting to extort money from the company he worked for
Here’s your reminder today of the insider threat, from the South East Organised Regional Crime Unit. This case was previously noted by BleepingComputer. A 28-year-old man who tried to extort money from the company he worked for has been jailed for three years and seven months. At Reading Crown Court today (11/7) Ashley Liles, of…