Dean Beeby reports: Canada Revenue Agency workers continue to snoop on the confidential tax files of businesses, acquaintances and others, despite at least $10.5 million spent so far to try to stop them. CBC News has uncovered nine significant cases reported since Jan. 1 in which tax workers improperly poked around the government’s electronic records to…
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Kanye West Hospital Records Breached, May Lead To UCLA Medical Center Firings
Shari Weiss reports: … It’s said that over the course of his stay, an unknown number of staffers tried to gain illegal access to West’s electronic medical records. Of course, like with every patient, they were to be protected by HIPAA, a law that mandates private health information only be shared with those who have been…
CT: 3 arrested in fraud scheme that allegedly used veterans’ information
Fox61 reports: STAFFORD SPRINGS — Exactly nine months after police began investigating the possibility that a local company was committing fraud and larceny, three people have been arrested. […] It was determined that the employees of Shark Cycle were stealing the personal information — names, birthday and social security numbers — of customers who were veterans. They…
In: Ex-staffers of private firm booked for data theft
TNN reports: A city-based customer care firm has alleged that two of its former employees stole sensitive information while employed by them, and used it to start a rival customer care firm in Dehradun. In a complaint filed at Udyog Vihar police station on Saturday, Manoj Pandey, senior vice-president of Quatrro Global Services, said the accused, Pramod Mamgain and Vikas…
Florida man sentenced to prison for selling medical records stolen from Rotech Healthcare
There’s an update to an incident previously reported on this site in August: Dec. 13 – U.S. District Judge Charlene Edwards Honeywell today sentenced Vickie Lorenzo Bryant (39, Plant City) to four years in federal prison for access device fraud and aggravated identity theft. He pleaded guilty on August 23, 2016. According to court documents, in…
HK: Dozens of bank staff arrested over bribery-linked data leak
Esther Yu reports: Nearly 30 people have been arrested over allegations of bribery in order to obtain confidential customer information for loan business sales purposes, the Independent Commission Against Corruption said. Among the 29 people held after the graftbusters launched operation “Mirabilis” were three managers and 18 serving and former direct sales representatives of a…