More than two years after a disturbing privacy breach was first disclosed, Dr. Fernando Rojas has – FINALLY – been fired by Vitalité Health Authority for snooping in over 140 patients’ files over a two-year period. Read more on CBC. And yes, if it takes you two years to detect snooping and then another two years to…
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Kaiser Permanente notifies patients after stolen ultrasound machines were recovered
Kaiser Permanente of Northern California is notifying patients after discover of an insider theft. In a letter template uploaded to the California Attorney General’s web site today, Angela Anderson, KP’s Regional Privacy and Security Officer, writes that on June 10, they learned that a number of ultrasound machines had been stolen by two KP employees. The machines were…
FL: Former Insurance Co. Employee Sentenced For Identity Theft (UPDATED)
CBS reports: A former health insurance company employee was sentenced to nearly three years in prison for stealing more than 50 customer identities from her former job. Quinzella Romer, 39, previously pled guilty to one count of possession of fifteen or more unauthorized access devices, in this case social security numbers which had been issued…
CA: Peninsula Dry-Cleaner Facing 8 Years In Prison for ID Theft, Fraud: Prosecutors
Patch reports: An owner of a Menlo Park dry cleaning business is facing up to eight years in state prison after pleading no contest Friday to numerous charges of felony identity theft and fraud, prosecutors said. Edwin Smith, the 64-year-old owner of Menalto Cleaners, accepted a plea deal that dropped many of the 40 felony…
Former Cumming Police Officer Charged with Accepting Bribe for Unlawfully Accessing a Law Enforcement Database
Former Cumming, Georgia, Police Officer Nathan VanBuren has been arraigned after being charged with wire fraud and computer fraud. According to U.S. Attorney Horn, the charges, and other information presented in court: In July 2015, VanBuren, in his official capacity as a police officer, responded to a 911 call at a citizen’s home in Cumming,…
Island Health reports another privacy breach
Cindy E. Harnett reports: Island Health has uncovered another privacy breach, on the heels of its largest breach of medical records ever. A Victoria-based employee has viewed the medical records of 34 individuals, all from Vancouver island, who received services from Island Health. This is the fourth privacy breach in two years, and brings the…