Vernal Coleman reports: The Newark police captain arrested Tuesday in connection with an alleged data theft scheme has been suspended, Newark Police Department spokesman Sergeant Ronald Glover confirmed. Captain Anthony Buono, 60, of Millstone, was upon his arrest immediately suspended from active duty without pay pending the outcome of the investigation and trial, Glover said. Read more…
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Georgia Man Pleads Guilty To Filing 62 Fraudulent Tax Returns
Michael J. Moore, United States Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia announced that Bryant T. Johnson, aged 26, of Albany, Georgia entered a guilty plea to one count of wire fraud and one count of aggravated identity theft on June 17, 2015 before the Honorable W. Louis Sands, Senior U. S. District Court Judge,…
Breach of patient records investigated by UC Irvine Medical Center
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…
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…