The Local (Austria) reports: Personal data belonging to around 20,000 customers of the Vienna public transport company Wiener Linien has been stolen and published online. The Wiener Linien said the data, which included personal information such as names, addresses and email addresses but not payment data, was stolen by a former employee of its online…
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Alberta Health System investigating alleged privacy breach by 48 Calgary employees
Erica Stark reports: At least one health care worker has been fired and dozens more are facing disciplinary action after allegedly improperly accessing a patient’s information, a claim that the nurse’s union is disputing. Forty-eight employees of Alberta Health Services are under investigation by the health authority and the privacy commissioner after a routine audit revealed…
Ca: Prosecutor says hospital clerk should go to jail
Marco Chown Oved reports: She admitted to stealing more than 12,000 patient records from the maternity ward at the Rouge Valley Hospital and selling them for $1 a pop to financial firms, and for this Shaida Bandali should go to jail, an Ontario Securities Commission prosecutor said Tuesday. “Ms. Bandali essentially trafficked in the identities…
Border Agency officer pleads guilty to data breaches
ITV reports: A 50-year-old Guernsey Border Agency officer has pleaded guilty to data protection law offences. Appearing before magistrates, Matthew Walsh admitted four charges, two of intent to secure unauthorised access to data on a government computer and two charges of disclosing personal data without consent. He was granted unconditional bail and is due to…
Court case against former HSBC Private Bank employee adjourned
The Local reports: A trial in Switzerland has been adjourned against Hervé Falciani, the former IT worker from the HSBC Private Bank in Geneva who leaked data about thousands of suspected tax evaders. Falciani, 43, now living in Spain, failed to appear in the Federal Criminal Court in Bellinzona in the canton of Ticino on…
Former Comptroller of Albuquerque Construction Company Sentenced to Prison for Defrauding Firm
AP is reporting that Stephanie Pyle, 40, has been sentenced to 4 1/2 years in prison for fraud and identity theft. She was also ordered to pay more than $2.4M in restitution. Pyle was arraigned in February, 2015 after a grand jury returned a 12-count indictment charging her with six counts of access device fraud and…