Statement from UC Irvine Medical Center: June 17, 2015 On March 13, 2015, officials at UC Irvine Medical Center discovered that an employee, whose job required access to some patient records, had looked at additional records without a job-related purpose between June 2011 and March 2015. As far as it is possible to determine, the…
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NY: Metropolitan Hospital Center notifies almost 4,000 patients of breach
The NYC Health and Hospitals Corporation is providing some powerful reminders of the importance of auditing and monitoring employee emails. Last month, I noted that they had detected breaches involving patients at Bellevue Hospital and Jacobi Medical Center. On June 1, HHC notified HHS of yet another email-related breach, this one involving Metropolitan Hospital Center….
Rogue Equifax employee improperly accessed Rite Aid employees’ information
Pharmacy giant Rite Aid receives online paystubs, W-2s, and self-service applications from Equifax. In early March, Equifax notified Rite Aid that it had detected suspicious activity on some Rite Aid employee accounts. Equifax’s investigation resulted in a subsequent notification to Rite Aid on April 30 that an employee had misused their privileged access to reset…
San Luis Obispo County Community College District notifies employees of breach
On May 31st, Cuesta College sent a notification letter to employees, a copy of which was provided to the California Attorney General’s Office. It reads, in part: It has come to the attention of the San Luis Obispo County Community College District (“the District”) that on May 31, 2015 a District employee gained unauthorized access to the District’s employee database…
Report: Encrypted Edward Snowden files hacked
Ewen MacAskill and Patrick Wintour report: Downing Street and the Home Office are being challenged to answer in public claims that Russia and China have broken into the secret cache of Edward Snowden files and that British agents have had to be withdrawn from live operations as a consequence. The reports first appeared in the…
VA: Portsmouth police officer indicted on computer invasion of privacy charges
Andrea Castillo reports: A Portsmouth police officer was indicted on computer invasion of privacy charges following a state police investigation. Melissa Moore, who has been with the department for three years, was indicted by a Portsmouth grand jury Thursday, according to a news release from Portsmouth Police Department spokeswoman Detective Misty Holley. Read more on…