Jan Vermeulen reports: Absa has sent a notice to several new clients found to be affected by a November 2020 data leak, when a former employee gave people’s personal information to a platform that sold it to third parties. The former Absa staff member behind the leak was a credit analyst who had access to risk modelling systems…
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North Shore University Hospital notifies 7,614 patients of unauthorized access to personal information
The following is not a new incident. It is just a newly disclosed incident because of a law enforcement-requested delay in disclosure. North Shore University Hospital (NSUH) issued a notice on February 1, 2022 concerning insider-wrongdoing. The notice begins: NSUH learned that a former employee who worked at a medical office may have improperly accessed…
Sg: Ex-deputy lead of MOH data unit jailed for leaking daily Covid-19 case numbers in 2020
Low Youjin reports from Singapore: Despite having signed an undertaking to safeguard official information, a former deputy lead from a data management unit of the Ministry of Health (MOH) chose to leak classified Covid-19 information to members of a chat group on multiple occasions before it was officially announced to the public. Zhao Zheng’s attitude towards…
Michigan Medicine notifies 269 patients after discovering a snooping employee
Here’s a good example of how monitoring and logs can detect a problem and prevent even more problems. Michigan Medicine detected an employee accessing patient records without legitimate need. The improper access began in December, 2021, and continued until it was caught by monitoring on January 25, 2022. Access was cut off on January 27…
NY: Nassau notifies 209 workers their confidential personal data may have been breached by employees
Scott Eidler reports: Nassau officials have notified more than 200 current and former employees in the Assessment Department their confidential personal data may have been breached after some co-workers last year gained unauthorized access to human resources information about department workers. In a letter Thursday to Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman and county legislators, Technology…
UK: Confidential patient data breached by ESNEFT staff
Lewis Adams reports: Cases of snooping on confidential patient data at the trust which runs Colchester Hospital are among the highest in the country, figures reveal. East Suffolk and North Essex Foundation Trust reported the country’s second highest figure when it came to staff breaching patient privacy. The Daily Mail revealed today incidents involved nosey…