Yahoo! reports: A female civil servant and another woman, both 36, will be charged on Wednesday (14 April) over alleged leaks of the daily updates of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Singapore prior to their official release, the police said on Tuesday (13 April). The public servant will be charged under the Official Secrets Act (OSA)…
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Ca: Privacy breach at RDRHC Diagnostic Imaging department
rdnewsNOW reports: An internal investigation by Alberta Health Services (AHS) has revealed 3,224 patients had their electronic health records accessed improperly over a two-year period at Red Deer Regional Hospital Centre (RDRHC) by two clerical employees in the Diagnostic Imaging (DI) department. The AHS investigation concluded that one DI employee had improperly accessed the patient…
UK: Woman stalked by radiographer after NHS file accessed speaks out
Alice Liana Galli reports: A woman stalked by a radiographer after he stole her NHS files has spoken for the first time about the impact of his actions on her life and how she moved home. Waiving her anonymity, Vivien Hamilton spoke to The Ferret because she wants to help other women who may be…
VA staffer used medical records to stalk and harass female vet, lawmakers demand reforms
Leo Shane III reports: A group of 50 House lawmakers is demanding immediate improvements to the Department of Veterans Affairs system for investigating sexual harassment complaints after a woman was stalked and intimidated by a call center employee who used his post to look up her personal information. In a letter sent this week to VA…
Signify Health notifies covered entities’ patients of possible access to their PHI
Signify Health, LLC is a business associate to entities covered under HIPAA. On October 12, 2020, they discovered that an employee had published his login credentials to a subscription-based job board. The employee, described as a low-level IT Support Specialist, was seeking a coding specialist to help him write a job-related script. He would later…
UPDATE: Trillium Health IT specialist pleads guilty to stealing personal info from colleagues’ computers
Some days, I see a name in my news feed and think, “Oh, I know about that breach already.” But then I doublecheck, only to learn that no, this was not the breach I had covered a week or so ago, but yet another breach involving the same name or a similar name. Such is…