David McKay reports that Northgate Medical Primary Care in Springfield, Massachusetts has issued a press release about a HIPAA breach. I haven’t been able to find any copy of it online or on their web site as of the time of this post, however. McKay reports: Northgate said they discovered in January that a former employee had…
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Jury Awards Calif. Mortgage Co. $25M For Rival’s Data Theft
There’s a follow-up to an insider theft case previously noted on this site. Y. Peter Kang reports: A California state jury on Tuesday awarded $25.1 million in damages to Mount Olympus Mortgage Co., finding rival mortgage lender Guaranteed Rate Inc. liable for illegally transferring hundreds of private consumer loan files from MOMCo’s computer systems, according…
German cops in India to probe data-breach case
Dwaipayan Ghosh reports: The CID, along with German cops, is raiding several places in Salt Lake and New Town for the past 48 hours in connection with a fraud worth several crores involving a German firm. The accused had allegedly set up an IT firm in Sector V and was providing technical support to the…
AR: Pulaski County Special School District notifies past and current employees of data breach
It was a heck of a week for Pulaski County Special School District employees. One hundred of them got pink slips on Wednesday in a downsizing move, and all former and current employees received emails or phone messages late Friday night alerting them to a data breach in February that had just been discovered. Cynthia Howell reports: Pulaski County Special School…
In: Firm director remanded in data theft case
TNN reports: The directory of a company has been remanded in judicial custody for 14 days in the data theft case. Sunil Verma of M/s GC Associates was produced in a local court and remanded in judicial custody, said inspector H S Sekhon of cyber cell. “We have seized all relevant gadgets through which data…
NZ: Privacy review at Wellington Hospital after staffer caught snooping on records
Back in December, I noted an alleged breach at Wellington Hospital that was being investigated, but the name of the employee wasn’t provided, so it’s not clear whether that report is related to a new report out today by Ben Weather: A Wellington Hospital staff member has left after being caught accessing 33 patients’ records….