Dawn reports: A case has been registered against an employee of the Quaid-i-Azam Hospital for allegedly stealing data from the CT scan machine and according to a supreme court lawyer, the case might be the first of its kind in the country. Iftikhar Ali, the chief security officer at the hospital, who is the complainant…
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Pasadena Doctor Sentenced to 4 Years in Prison for Falsely Certifying Patients Were Terminally Ill as Part of Healthcare Fraud Scheme
One of the fears with medical identity theft is that a patient’s records could be corrupted in ways that could affect their care. In the case described below, the patients’ identity and insurance info wasn’t stolen, but it was misused to support a fraud scheme, and as part of the scheme, patients records were altered…
News anchor’s mother still fights to sue over prying
If you’re relatively new to medical privacy breach cases, you may not know about a 2008 case involving insider snooping concerning the care and death of news anchor, Anne Pressly. You can find previous coverage of the breach and case linked from here, but the short version is that the three being sued have previously pleaded guilty to misdemeanor…
T-Mobile’s Czech subsidiary gets CZK 3.6 million fine for inadequate safeguards
There’s an update to an insider breach involving the Czech subsidiary of T-Mobile. Telecompaper reports (subscription required) that the Czech data protection watchdog has fined T-Mobile CZK 3.6 million (approximately $150,000) for not having sufficient safeguards in place.
Former N. Bergen school employee spared prison in documents case
Michaelangelo Conte reports: A former North Bergen school board employee charged with taking confidential documents from the district to allegedly use them in a discrimination lawsuit will have the charges dropped when she completes a six-month term of supervised release. School board clerk Ivonne Saavedra filed her suit against the North Bergen Board of Education…
UK: Sage Group employee arrested on fraud charge
Ashley Armstrong reports: The City of London police arrested a Sage Group employee at Heathrow airport on Wednesday on suspicion of conspiracy to defraud, just two days after the FTSE 100 company revealed a data breach. The 32-year-old female’s arrest follows Sage’s announcement earlier this week that an internal login had been used to gain unauthorised access…