Olivia Carville reports: Three hospital workers have been charged under Ontario’s health privacy law for snooping into former mayor Rob Ford’s medical records after he was diagnosed with cancer. If convicted, this will be the first time in Ontario’s history that an individual has been successfully prosecuted under the Personal Health Information Protection Act (PHIPA)…
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Florida Hospital faces two data breach lawsuits
Paul Brinkmann reports: Florida Hospital is facing two possible class action lawsuits regarding two separate data breaches of patient information over the past four years. The hospital is battling both suits, and has recently submitted motions to toss them both out. The first data breach, revealed in August 2011, involved Florida Hospital employees Dale Munroe…
Quinlan revisited: employees who steal personnel records may not necessarily be fired, but at least they may be prosecuted
Keith J. Rosenblatt and David K. Broderick of Littler Mendelson write: Five years ago, in Quinlan v. Curtiss-Wright Corporation, the New Jersey Supreme Court ruled that a trusted employee’s act of stealing and using her employer’s confidential personnel documents in furtherance of her discrimination lawsuit constituted protected activity under the New Jersey Law Against Discrimination (“LAD”).1 On…
Judge overturns ex-Goldman programmer’s conviction
Fred Imbert reports: A Manhattan judge on Monday tossed out ex-Goldman Sachs Groupprogrammer Sergey Aleynikov’s conviction in a code theft case. “With today’s decision, Sergey Aleynikov has been acquitted of every single crime two sets of prosecutors could conjure in their zeal to do the bidding of Goldman Sachs,” Kevin Marino, Aleynikov’s attorney, said in…
ME: Windham Man Sentenced to Three Months for Fraud and Identity Theft
Portland, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Manuel J. Arruda, 46, of Windham, Maine was sentenced Thursday in U.S. District Court by Judge Jon D. Levy to three months in prison and two years of supervised release for mail and access device fraud and identity theft. He was also ordered to pay $11,962.85…
Insurer Claims That Hi-Tech Thieves Had Inside Help In Record Eli Lilly Heist
Edmund H. Mahony reports: In an effort to recover tens of millions in losses, the insurer for pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly is trying to prove that lax control over confidential, computer data by Lilly’s security contractor enabled thieves to use detailed schematics to carry out brazen warehouse burglaries in Enfield and elsewhere across the country….