From the Information Commissioner’s Office: A former administrative employee of Solent NHS Trust, Kayleigh Evans, has been prosecuted at West Hampshire Magistrates’ Court for accessing the sensitive medical records of a former girlfriend of her partner, without the consent of the data controller. The unlawful accesses to the records were over a 10 month period….
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Owners of Rosslyn coffee shop charged with credit card fraud
Michelle Basch reports: Customers of Caffe Aficionado in Rosslyn are being told to check their credit card statements after the coffee shop was closed down and the owners were arrested and charged with credit card fraud. Adiam Berhane and Clark Donat, both 44 years old and from Arlington, were arrested Friday morning. They’re charged with…
U.S. Bank Regulator Notifies Congress of Major Data Security Breach
Donna Borak reports: A U.S. bank regulator on Friday disclosed a data breach involving a former agency employee’s unauthorized removal of more than 10,000 records. The cybersecurity breach was first detected by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency in September while the agency was undertaking a retrospective two-year review of employees downloading information…
WI: Former Brookfield Sprint Employee Used Stolen Social Security Numbers to Set Up Accounts
CBS reports: A former employee at the Sprint Store in Brookfield, is charged with identity theft and stealing thousands of dollars’ worth of electronics. Theodore Harris worked at the Sprint Store, located at 6075 W Bluemound Rd in Brookfield. According to the criminal complaint, he used stolen social security numbers, birth dates and driver’s license numbers to…
AU: Lawyers duped by paramedic injury fraud
Kelly Burke reports: A government employee who duped some of Sydney’s leading law firms by selling the personal details of 130 injured paramedics pocketed more than $200,000 before walking out of court with a good behaviour bond. NSW Ambulance’s former injury management co-ordinator Waqar Ahmad Malik gained access to a list of injured paramedics the NSW…
Lincoln health center warning patients of data breach, fired worker
Nick Sambides Jr. reports: Health Access Network is warning “a very small number” of its 17,000 patients to beware of identity theft after firing a new employee for improperly accessing patient clinical information, its CEO said Wednesday. The federally funded community health center contacted the U.S. attorney general’s office and the Department of Justice on…