Glenn Smith reports: A Charleston drug screener and a Hollywood pharmacist pleaded not guilty Friday to conspiring to harvest confidential patient prescription records from a state database so attorneys could use them in Family Court cases. The indictments against drug tester Robert Bennett [of Medical-Legal Services in West Ashley] and pharmacist Timothy Keisler [of Preferred…
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UK: Essex police officer dismissed for gross misconduct
SFP reports: A panel chaired by Assistant Chief Constable Maurice Mason found that Dc Lee Pollard, who was based in the Child Abuse Investigation Team, had breached standards of behaviour in relation to honesty and integrity and confidentiality. In October 2013, he accessed, copied and disclosed another officer’s computerised application for a job promotion without…
AL: Former Hoover senior center employee sentenced for identity theft
Gadsden Times reports: A federal judge Thursday sentenced a former Hoover senior living center employee to four years and nine months in prison for using the identity of a resident with dementia to steal more than $300,000 from the resident’s bank and credit accounts, U.S. Attorney Joyce White Vance and U.S. Secret Service Special Agent…
Yet another insider breach at TD Bank. Paging regulators to Aisle 4…?
In a recent breach notification to New Hampshire’s Attorney General, TD Bank’s Head of U.S. Privacy & Social Media Compliance writes, in part: We recently learned that one of our employees obtained and inappropriately used confidential customer information and provided it to an unauthorized party not associated with TD Bank. The personal information they obtained…
NJ Supreme Court upholds criminal indictment of school board employee who stole student records to support lawsuit
Jeffrey A. Gruen of Day Pitney LLP reports that the New Jersey Supreme Court upheld the criminal indictment of an employee who stole documents from her employer to support her employment lawsuit. It’s an insider breach that I don’t recall ever reading about before, although now that I’ve gone looking for it, I can see…
Former Tampa PD employee indicted on fraud charges, misuse of police database
Elaine Silvestrini reports that Tonia Bright, a former Tampa Police civilian employee, has been indicted on charges that involve her misusing police databases to support a fraud scheme. Bright had retired last year. A search warrant affidavit filed last month said detectives were told that Bright’s friend, Rita Girven, drove around Tampa looking for older…