Salvador Rizzo reports: A former IRS contractor who leaked a slew of confidential tax records filed by the wealthiest Americans, including those of President Donald Trump, was sentenced Monday to the maximum of five years in prison. Charles Littlejohn pleaded guilty last year to one count of unauthorized disclosure of income tax returns. Littlejohn, 38, admitted that he…
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Former Executive Sentenced to Probation for HIPAA Violation
Steve Alder reports: Mark Kevin Robison, a former vice president of Commonwealth Health Corporation (now Med Center Health) in Kentucky has been sentenced to 2 years’ probation and ordered to pay $140,000 in restitution after reaching a plea agreement with federal prosecutors over a HIPAA violation. Robison pled guilty to knowingly disclosing the protected health…
UnitedHealth alleges trade secret theft by ex-execs
Nona Tepper reports: Two former UnitedHealth Group executives allegedly took trade secrets with them on the way out the door and used the information to found a pair of diabetes management startups, the conglomerate claims in a federal lawsuit. UnitedHealth Group filed suit against Ken Ehlert, Mark Pollmann and other leaders of Lore Health and…
AbbVie files trade secrets suit against Adcentrx and former employee
Nicole DeFeudis reports: AbbVie accused a former employee and a rival oncology developer of stealing trade secrets about its antibody-drug conjugate programs. The pharma giant on Friday filed suit in California federal court against Adcentrx and scientist Danny Lee, who left AbbVie in 2021 to join Adcentrx. The complaint alleges that Lee was “in a…
Former employee of Massachusetts high school pleads guilty in cyberattack
Updating a recent post, Russ Reed reports: A former information technology manager at a Massachusetts high school pleaded guilty Wednesday to targeting the school’s network during a cyberattack earlier this year. Conor LaHiff, 30, of Ayer, pleaded guilty in Boston’s federal court to one count of unauthorized damage to protected computers, according to the U.S….
UK: Severn Valley Medical Practice data breach leads to sacking
Joseph Broady reports: A staff member at a city GP surgery was sacked after lying about having appointments – resulting in a patient data breach. The data breach was confirmed by Severn Valley Medical Practice, which oversees the Henwick Halt Medical Centre in St John’s and the Lyppard Grange Medical Centre in Warndon. A letter was sent by…