Tara Bradbury reports: Two St. John’s lawyers have filed a class-action lawsuit against the Central Regional Health Authority, seeking damages for consequences suffered by more than 200 patients whose private information was illegally accessed. “The plaintiffs in this case suffered distress, humiliation, anger, upset, mental anguish, shock, fear of identity theft, uncertainty as to how…
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AR: Two men, including ex-employee of Magnolia bank, get federal sentences for stealing account info of 100 people, committing mail fraud
The Magnolia Reporter reports: Two men, including a former employee of a Magnolia bank, have been sentenced for stealing financial information and making more than $42,000 in fraudulent online purchases. Patrick Wayne Watson, 24, now of Conway, and Kennan Dane O’Bier, 24, now of Nash, TX, were sentenced Tuesday in United States Federal Court at…
Indian Army Probes Alleged Data Breach In Northern Command Amid Border Tensions
Shloak Prabhu reports: The Indian Army is probing an alleged case of data breach in its northern command after a soldier was caught sharing data with Pakistani operatives. The data breach matter came to light after army officials caught the soldier from Punjab who was posted with the Northern Command. This came amid Indian Army’s…
Insider Cloud Data Theft Plagues Healthcare Sector
Phil Muncaster reports: Over a third (35%) of global healthcare organizations suffered cloud data theft by malicious insiders last year, according to data from Netwrix. The findings come from the security vendor’s 2021 Netwrix Cloud Data Security Report, based on interviews with 937 IT professionals around the world. It claimed that while insider theft was less…
Arch Family Dentistry Office Managers Charged with Healthcare Fraud
HAMMOND- Justyn Arch, age 34, and Trystan Arch, age 31 both of Valparaiso, Indiana were charged with healthcare fraud by way of a single count Grand Jury Indictment which was unsealed today, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Gary T. Bell. According to documents in this case, Arch Complete Family Dentistry, with offices located in Chesterton, Crown…
Food server accused of stealing customers’ credit card information will plead guilty
Manola Morales reports on a case where the criminal activity occurred in 2017: A former food server accused of stealing credit card information from his customers will plead guilty in federal court on Tuesday. Prosecutors say Walter Padua conspired with another man and a woman to skim the credit cards and make purchases. Padua’s attorney…