May Warren reports: Two health workers who snooped into late mayor Rob Ford’s electronic health records have become the first in Ontario to be convicted under the province’s health privacy law, the Star has learned. Mohammad Rahman, of Toronto, and Debbie Davison, of Pickering, both pleaded guilty under the Personal Health Information Protection Act (PHIPA)…
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Probationary employee at CDOT misused employee info
Kieran Nicholson reports: State investigators are looking into a database breach at the Colorado Department of Transportation which could lead to identity thefts. The breach of the Disadvantaged Business Enterprise program with CDOT was discovered recently and has been reported to the Colorado Bureau of Investigation, said Amy Ford, a CDOT spokeswoman. […] “A probationary…
Nazareth Area School District: Student hacked into student, teacher data files
Michelle Merlin reports that Nazareth Area School District has sent out about 5,000 letters to families and teachers after discovering that a student accessed data and uploaded it onto a flash drive between 2011 and 2014. District Superintendent Dennis Riker said the old data contained student information from the district’s lunch program as well as information from a…
UK: Sacked Merseyside policewoman appeals dismissal for snooping on database
Luke Traynor reports that disgraced police constable Paula Humphreys will not just go quietly into the night: A sacked police constable is appealing the decision to dismiss her for snooping on confidential police computers about the criminal activity of her relatives and their boyfriends. Paula Humphreys lost her job in December after a disciplinary panel…
Eastern Health Employee Fired for ‘Deliberate’ Privacy Breach
VOCM reports: An Eastern Health employee has been let go after what health officials say was a deliberate privacy breach involving private information on 11 patients. VOCM’s Linda Swain reports. Read more on VOCM.
Former DC Youth Rehab Employee Sentenced to 4 Years Role in Identity Theft and Tax Fraud Scheme
A former D.C. Department of Youth Rehabilitation Services (DYRS) employee who provided 645 youth offenders’ identity information to a tax refund fraud ring was sentenced today. Marc A. Bell pleaded guilty in January for his role in the scheme that filed more than 12,000 fraudulent tax returns seeking at least $42 million in refunds. According to the Department…