July 1 – United States Attorney Walt Green announced that former Georgia-Pacific IT specialist and systems administrator BRIAN P. JOHNSON, age 43, of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, was arrested this morning after his indictment last week by a federal grand jury for intentionally damaging protected computers. The indictment charges that, from February 14, 2014 through February…
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Ex-clerk arrested in Worth County Magistrate Court information leak
Jim West reports: The Georgia Bureau of Investigation officials say former Worth County Magistrate Court clerk Tammy Hall Powell, 54, of Sylvester has been charged with obstruction-hindering law enforcement and violation of oath of office. According to the GBI, Powell, who resigned in June, provided confidential information about a search warrant to William Neal Gay,…
Govt. prosecutes health workers for snooping into Rob Ford’s medical records
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)…
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…