Abbott Brant reports: If you shopped at Rite Aid‘s 238 Hooker Ave. store in the past year, you should keep an eye on your bank and credit card statements, according to the Rite Aid Corporation. A Rite Aid associate at the Poughkeepsie location “may have obtained limited customer information” including customer names, addresses and payment…
Category: Insider
Former Cuesta College employee sentenced for identity theft
There’s a follow-up to an insider breach at Cuesta College first noted on this site in June, 2015. The employee in question, Lacey Fowler, 30, was a human resources analyst at the college and used her position to access co-workers’ information to open up credit accounts in the victims’ names. She had pleaded no contest to…
Ca: Inuvik hospital confirms potential data breach by employees
CBC News reports: Beaufort Delta Health and Social Services has hired two investigators to look into a potential data breach of patients’ confidential health records by employees at the Inuvik Hospital. The health authority says an internal audit showed a possible information breach of electronic records by a small number of its employees. Read more on…
NY: Woman charged with identity theft in misuse of co-workers’ information
I occasionally receive requests to remove an old article or redact people’s names. “I’ve done my time and am trying to turn my life around,” is the usual reason. And while I understand that, the policy of this site is NOT to remove old articles or redact names unless the person was acquitted. There is…
Second Tampa General Hospital employee charged in patient identity theft for tax refund fraud scheme
There’s an update to a case first noted on this site in July, 2013. The Tampa Tribune reports that Shakania Benton, 37, a former Tampa General Hospital unit coordinator for the hospital’s main operating room, has been indicted on charges she disclosed patient information in connection with a stolen identity tax refund fraud scheme. Previously,…
Israeli border police officer indicted for leaking personal information
Noam Dvir reports on yet another “little” breach that could cause big harm to individuals involved: A Border Police officer was on Wednesday indicted for abusing his authority and violating privacy, after he allegedly passed on a woman’s personal information to the far-right Lehava organization. The incident took place in December 2014, when the officer in question,…