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Ca: Tax workers continue to peek at forbidden files: internal reports

Posted on September 30, 2015 by Dissent

Dean Beeby reports: Canada Revenue Agency workers continue to poke into the confidential tax files of friends and foes, despite assurances to Canada’s privacy commissioner that the chronic problem of unauthorized access is being fixed. The 34 significant privacy breaches reported by the CRA to the commissioner in 2014 show all but two were deliberately…

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Data breach lawsuit against former parent company of Flowers Hospital survives motion to dismiss

Posted on September 29, 2015 by Dissent

There’s a noteworthy update to a lawsuit against Triad of Alabama, the former parent company for Flowers Hospital, whose employee was convicted on both federal and state charges for stealing and trafficking in patient information for tax refund fraud. The breach and earlier developments in the lawsuit were covered on PHIprivacy.net. Today, Lance Griffin reports that the amended class…

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Canadian physician facing disciplinary charges over snooping in patients’ records

Posted on September 29, 2015 by Dissent

There’s an update to a breach that I hadn’t read about back in June when it was first reported. The breach allegedly involves one doctor who improperly accessed two patients’ records held at Group Health Centre and Sault Area Hospital. But the allegations have some bizarre features, as SooToday reports: The hospital reported in June that an internal investigation into…

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MA: Waiter charged with credit card fraud

Posted on September 27, 2015 by Dissent

Anthony Fay reports that at an alert restaurant owner may have saved more of her customers from becoming victims of a rogue employee. The owner of a Springfield Chinese restaurant called police, after she allegedly discovered one of her waiters stealing customers’ credit and debit card information. Springfield police Sgt. John Delaney told 22News that…

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Ringleader of $24 Million Stolen Identity Tax Refund Fraud Ring Sentenced to 15 Years in Prison

Posted on September 27, 2015 by Dissent

There’s another follow-up to a case  previously reported on PHIprivacy.net and more recently, on this site (here and here). A resident of Newnan, Georgia, was sentenced Friday to prison for her role as the ringleader of a $24 million stolen identity tax refund fraud (SIRF) conspiracy. The sentence was announced by Acting Assistant Attorney General Caroline D. Ciraolo of…

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New Mexico Department of Workforce Solutions looking into potential information leak

Posted on September 26, 2015 by Dissent

Stephanie Claytor reports: The Department of Workforce Solutions is conducting an agency-wide internal investigation, looking into whether confidential information was leaked. The department launched the investigation at the end of August. Cabinet Secretary Celina Bussey confirms Buddy Tobyas voluntarily resigned last week in the midst of the investigation. Bussey said Tobyas was the operations manager…

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