Jillian Hartmann of WPXI reports on an insider-wrongdoing case that has affected 8 customers of Highmark Health: Allegheny County District Attorney’s office charged Zakayah Scott who worked remotely from South Carolina for Highmark Health. Authorities said Scott had access to customers’ personal information including birthdays, addresses and phone numbers. They said she called Highmark’s customer…
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Canada: PRHC reaches $988K proposed settlement for patient privacy breaches in 2011-2012
Greg Davis reports an update to a breach case that DataBreaches has been covering since 2012. For previous coverage, search this site for “Peterborough Regional.” A proposed settlement of $988,550 has been reached in a class-action lawsuit relating to patient health records being wrongfully accessed by former employees at the Peterborough Regional Health Centre more than a…
Snooping in Medical Records by Hospital Security Guards Leads to $240,000 HIPAA Settlement
Today, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights (OCR) announced a settlement with Yakima Valley Memorial Hospital, a not-for-profit community hospital located in Yakima, Washington resolving an investigation under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA). OCR investigated allegations that several security guards from Yakima Valley Memorial…
Big Law, Big Problems: Fox Rothschild LLP Employees Face Serious Allegations of Malpractice and Criminal Activity
The following is a law firm-generated press release about a case they have filed. Keeping in mind that a complaint is allegations that have yet to be proven or disproven, DataBreaches has included this item on this site because if true, it would be a case of insider-wrongdoing via misuse of a client’s information. NEWS…
South Korea indicts ex-Samsung executive for alleged data leak to China
Reuters reports: South Korean prosecutors said they indicted a former Samsung Electronics executive on Monday on suspicions of stealing the company’s technology to build a chip factory in China. The defendant, who also formerly worked at SK Hynix as a vice president, is accused of illegally acquiring Samsung data to build a factory in the…
Defiant Johns Hopkins doctor testifies she shared private patient records because she feared Russia
Mike Hellgren reports: Defense attorneys for the two Maryland doctors accused of providing the private medical records of patients to help the Russian government rested their cases on Friday afternoon. The lawyer for Johns Hopkins anesthesiologist Dr. Anna Gabrielian only called his client to the stand in her own defense. The lawyer for her husband,…