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…
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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…
Insurance broker fined $1K for not following MPI privacy rules
Vera-Lynn Kubinec reports: A privacy breach involving customers’ auto insurance files has netted a Winnipeg insurance broker a $1,000 fine. Manitoba Public Insurance determined that last fall broker Basil Galarnyk accessed customer information 42 times without performing any transactions and with “no discernible reason” for accessing the files, a discipline panel has found. As a result, MPI…
Ca: SaskPower employee fired for ‘snooping’ on more than 4,000 employee files
Alexa Huffman reports: Snooping on personal staff data, including SIN numbers, salaries and spouse names, led to a SaskPower employee being fired in January. According to a report released in June by the Saskatchewan Information and Privacy Commissioner, Ron Kruzeniski, the employee inappropriately accessed 4,382 human resources files from current and former employees at the…
Ca: Physician’s certificate of registration suspended for 5 months, slapped with $5,000 fine over breaches
Jeffrey Ougler reports: The College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario has found that Dr. Douglas Brooks committed an act of professional misconduct. The college charged in June 2015 that the Sault Ste. Marie physician “inappropriately, and without consent,” accessed health records of two patients, and acted as coroner in all, or part, of the…