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Medical data of 150 Toronto hospital patients allegedly used to extort money from company

Posted on October 7, 2020 by Dissent

Katherine DeClerq reports: A Toronto hospital says that roughly 150 patients have been impacted by a data breach after a third-party employee allegedly stole medical reports in an effort to extort money from their company after being let go. According to a letter sent on Sept. 30 by a privacy and information access specialist at Unity…

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University Hospital Limerick writing to 630 patients after alleged major data breach which saw information posted on Twitter

Posted on October 6, 2020 by Dissent

David Raleigh reports: University Hospital Limerick (UHL) is in the process of sending letters to over 600 patients following an alleged major data breach concerning patient data, including details of 95 children, which was then posted on social media. Gardaí have also been informed of the alleged breach by a non-HSE employee. It’s alleged the…

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NY: Former Information Technology Employee Of Hospital Sentenced To 30 Months In Prison For Computer Intrusion

Posted on October 2, 2020 by Dissent

From the SDNY, a press release involving an unnamed hospital in NYC. I’ll tell you more about this one after the press release: Audrey Strauss, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that RICHARD LIRIANO was sentenced yesterday to 30 months in prison for engaging in a scheme to…

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Maryland Man Sentenced to Prison for Intentionally Damaging the Computers of His Former Employer

Posted on September 24, 2020 by Dissent

From DOJ, this press release today about a case where a former employee exceeded previously authorized access:  A Maryland man was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Catherine C. Blake today to 12 months and one day in federal prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for illegally accessing and damaging the computer network of…

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Shopify says two ‘rogue’ employees involved in data breach to obtain customer records

Posted on September 23, 2020 by Dissent

The Canadian Press reports:  Shopify Inc. is working with the FBI after two “rogue members” of its support team engaged in a scheme to illegitimately obtain customer transactional records of some merchants. The Ottawa-based tech firm says it terminated the employees’ access to its network and referred the data breach to law enforcement. Read more…

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Montefiore employee terminated after data breach affected up to 4,000 patient records

Posted on September 21, 2020 by Dissent

Jeff Lagasse reports: On Friday, Montefiore Medical Center alerted patients that a former employee had recently stolen personal information from roughly 4,000 patient records, which led Montefiore to terminate the employee upon learning of the security breach and potential identity theft. Read more on Healthcare Finance. Their story appears to have a typo in it, though:  the…

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