Graham Cluley writes: It was just after 6pm on December 23, 2013, and Lennon Ray Brown, a computer engineer at the Citibank Regents Campus in Irving, Texas, was out for revenge. Earlier in the day, Brown – who was responsible for the bank’s IT systems – had attended a work performance review with his supervisor….
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Former Pharmacy Owner Sentenced to Prison for Stealing from Charity
Katie Eder has a follow-up on a case first reported in the media in January The former owner of a pharmacy in Lexington, Kentucky, has been sentenced to more than 6 years in prison for stealing $1.1 million from a charity called Chronic Disease Fund. Adam K. Sloan, 37, admitted to using personal information from customers…
MN: Rare data breach claim against a county settled for $1M
Noell Wolfgram Evans reports: Hundreds of Mille Lacs County, Minn. residents went to bed on July 1 with a million reasons to feel a little better. On that day, a settlement was announced between residents and Mille Lacs County and Mikki Jo Peterick, a former child support investigator for the Mille Lacs County Department of Family Services,…
Unauthorized employee accessed AnMed Health patient records, release says
Carla Field reports: A health care revenue company says one of its employees looked at nearly two dozen patient records without authorization. Cardon Outreach does contract work for AnMed Health, and has employees on site at the hospital. AnMed said in a release that a Cardon Outreach employee opened 22 patient files without authorization, including…
OR: Providence Health & Services notifying 5,400 patients of long-running insider breach
For reasons I can’t begin to fathom, this one was sitting in ‘drafts’ and never got posted. Oops. AP reports: Providence Health & Services in Oregon is notifying about 5,400 current and former patients that a former employee may have improperly accessed their patient records. Providence said in a statement Friday that it learned of…
Postal employee charged with theft of thousands of credit cards
And then sometimes, it’s still just low-tech old-fashioned theft: A former U.S. Postal Service employee appeared in federal court earlier this month after agreeing to plead guilty to stealing and selling thousands of credit cards from the mail, the Justice Department said. The 48-year-old California man, who had worked for USPS for more than 20…