From HHS, resolution of a complaint they received in 2017: The Office for Civil Rights (OCR) has settled with B. Brandon Au, DDS, Inc., d/b/a New Vision Dental (New Vision Dental), in California, over the impermissible disclosure of patient protected health information (PHI) in response to online reviews, and other potential violations of the Health…
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Former Twitter employee sentenced to more than three years in prison for spying for Saudi Arabia
Kevin Collier reports: A former Twitter employee found guilty of spying on users on behalf of the Saudi royal family has been sentenced to three and a half years in prison. Ahmad Abouammo, a dual U.S.-Lebanese citizen who helped oversee media partnerships for Twitter in the Middle East and North Africa, was part of a scheme to…
IN: Munster student gained access to school network and student information
Carole Carlson reports: School Town of Munster parents learned recently a student gained access to an administrative file back in April and copied privacy information. Superintendent Bret Heller told parents it was discovered Oct. 26 after officials noticed an administrative file in an unexpected location. Through an investigation, officials found a student gained access and…
Ca: Personal info of 5,000 Edmonton employees compromised in insider data breach
CTV reports: The city says staff were notified on Wednesday that employee information was the subject of a data breach last year. According to a written statement by Daryl Croft, branch manager of Open City and Technology (OCT), his branch discovered that records had been accessed by a former employee without authorization in May 2021….
Nurse removed confidential patient files from three nursing homes in Cork and Kerry
Sean McCarthaigh reports: A registered nurse had admitted being guilty of professional misconduct over the unauthorised taking of a large number of confidential patient records and medical files from three nursing homes where she worked in Kerry and Cork. The nurse, Rasa Leliene, appeared before a fitness-to-practise inquiry of the Nursing and Midwifery Board of…
Reminder that small-n medical privacy breaches can cause harm
Over on PogoWasRight.org this morning, I linked to a post by Eric Goldman involving litigation over a medical privacy breach. One plaintiff claimed to have suffered significant harm in her life due to a hospital employee mailing her information to an unrelated third party who then posted it online. I mention that case because although…