Sebastian Bron reports: St. Joseph’s Healthcare Hamilton has fired an employee who inappropriately snooped into the medical records of four dozen patients. The massive privacy breaches spanned more than a year and saw 49 patients’ personal health information — think names, medical record numbers, ethnicities, family doctors, birthdays, phone numbers and addresses — exposed to a…
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Ca: Conviction for Illegal Disclosure of Health Information
From the Office of the Information & Privacy Commissioner of Alberta, a new decision: A former Covenant Health employee pleaded guilty to knowingly disclosing health information in contravention of HIA. Samantha Barker was fined $1,500 for the offence under HIA. She also admitted to accessing health information of several people without a valid employment purpose….
NH: Litchfield School District employee wrongdoing created student data security incident
On January 19, 2022, the Litchfield School District in New Hampshire notified the state’s Attorney General of a data security/privacy incident that seems to have previously escaped this site’s awareness. Let’s correct that now. From their report: On December 6, 2021, the District discovered that an individual with authority to access student records exceeded their…
After delaying notification so as not to interfere with criminal investigation, GreenSlate makes notification of data breach
GreenSlate is notifying employees of some of its clients about a breach involving a rogue Canadian employee. According to their notification template submitted to the California Attorney General’s Office, on December 22, 2021, the firm’s security team detected that between December 10 and December 15, 2021, an employee in Canada had downloaded scanned paperwork and…
The Tel Aviv company paid millions to stop cyber criminals
Ofir Dor reports: In early 2021, a team from Sygnia was called in to deal with an intrusion into the systems of a US technology company that develops and manufactures Wi-Fi equipment, and that has a $15 billion market cap. The company received an anonymous email demanding a ransom payment of 50 Bitcoins (about $1.9…
UK: Cop appears at Hamilton Sheriff Court on trial over data protection breach
A police officer is on trial for accessing records related to an investigation into her alleged driving offenses. Rory Cassidy reports: A police officer has gone on trial accused of illegally accessing her own case file. Acting Sergeant Victoria Robb is said to have logged on to a computer and looked at details of driving offences she allegedly committed. Robb, 31, went…