Joanna Frketich reports: Oliver Rodd was in crisis in the emergency department when a nurse at Joseph Brant Hospital snooped in his electronic patient record. The snooper was on the surgical floor where his girlfriend worked, looking at private information containing details about the 57-year-old Burlington man’s anxiety, depression and suicidal thoughts. “Somebody hacked into…
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GA: Former IRS Revenue Agent Pleads Guilty to Aggravated Identity Theft of Taxpayer Information
Creshika C. Wise, a former Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Revenue Agent who impersonated a taxpayer in order to steal over $470,000, has pleaded guilty to a charge of aggravated identity theft. According to U.S. Attorney John Horn, the charges and other information presented in court: Creshika Wise worked for the IRS from 2008 until the…
Ca: North Bay nurse who snooped into 5,800 patients’ records gets four month suspension
May Warren reports that a North Bay nurse who snooped into more than 5,800 patients’ records yet escaped prosecution because of Crown prosecutor delays and mis-steps, has had her license suspended by the College of Nurses of Ontario. Melissa McLellan was the first person ever actually charged under the 2004 Personal Health Information Protection Act (PHIPA),…
Suspended sentence for leaking sensitive Nama documents
Irish Times reports: A former official with the National Asset Management Agency who leaked potentially sensitive information has been given a two year suspended sentence. Enda Farrell (40) sent confidential information about the Nama valuation of hundreds of properties to named individuals in the investment companies QED Equity Ltd and Canaccord Genuity. Read more on Irish Times.
Woman Claims Rapist Found Her Through Car Dealership
This may be one for the “small breach, big harm” files. Robert Kovacik and Mary Harris report on a lawsuit in Los Angeles filed by a woman who alleges that her rapist got her address and information from a Mercedes car dealership where he worked and where she brought her car for servicing. According to the plaintiff, the…
IA: Allen Hospital in Waterloo reports patient data breach
Pat Kinney reports: UnityPoint Health-Allen Hospital is reviewing a breach of patient information which occurred over about seven years. The hospital is notifying approximately 1,620 patients that a former employee inappropriately accessed their personal information in the hospital’s electronic medical record. Allen Hospital compliance staff detected inappropriate access to the hospital’s medical record on March…