Sebastian Bron reports: St. Joseph’s Healthcare Hamilton has created a new executive position dedicated to protecting patient privacy in the wake of a litany of intentional staff breaches. The hospital said Wednesday the senior post will oversee a revamped privacy policy, recently overhauled amid staunch criticism after five employees snooped into the sensitive health records of…
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UK: Around 5,000 Dorset hospital patient images deleted
Andrew Goldman reports: Thousands of radiology images, including breast screenings, of Dorset patients have been accidentally deleted. University Hospitals Dorset (UHD) has insisted implications to patients are “very low” after the Echo discovered approximately 5,000 health images taken during a period in 2019 were wiped during a routine archive process. Images lost include 214 clinical…
Former Twitter Employee Found Guilty of Acting as an Agent of a Foreign Government and Unlawfully Sharing Twitter User Information
A federal jury yesterday convicted a former Media Partnerships Manager for the Middle East/North Africa (MENA) region at Twitter of acting as a foreign agent without notice to the Attorney General, conspiracy, wire fraud, international money laundering, and falsification of records in a federal investigation. The verdict follows a two-week trial before the Honorable Senior…
Former Public Utility Employee Pleads Guilty to Installing Keylogger Devices on Work Computers
CLEVELAND – John Pelton, 55, of Avon Lake, Ohio, a former Operator with a Northern Ohio public utility, pleaded guilty today to recording the computer keyboard strokes of coworkers while employed at the utility and to making false statements to FBI agents. Pelton officially pleaded guilty to a Bill of Information charging him with attempting…
Bits ‘n Pieces
Updating some HHS reports: First Choice Community Health Care reported its ransomware attack to HHS on August 1 as impacting 101,541 patients. BHG Holdings / Behavioral Health Group reported its breach to HHS on July 27 as impacting 197,507 patients. Elsewhere: California: A former owner of a T-Mobile retail store in Eagle Rock has been…
FBI raids Trump’s Mar-a-Lago
Rebecca Beitsch and Harper Neidig report: The FBI executed a search warrant on former President Trump’s home in Florida on Monday, the ex-president said, lashing out at law enforcement for what he called “political persecution.” “My beautiful home Mar A Lago in Palm Beach, Florida is currently under siege, raided and occupied by a large group of…