Tammy Worth reports on HIPAA-related privacy breaches and one lawyer’s experience representing plaintiffs. There are some interesting points and examples in the articles as to what awards or settlements have been. As examples: A woman in St. Louis, Missouri, whose mental health records were released to her ex-husband during custody suit settled a case for…
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CA: Woman claims doctor mishandled patient records
Tori Cooper reports: Thousands of confidential patient records made it into 23ABC Newsroom Friday. Haylee Jones, stopped by with a box full of patient records, detailing highly privileged personal information belonging to thousands of patients in Kern County along with prescriptions and more. Kern Medical confirmed with us that Rishi Telwar was in the residency…
High-ranking Russian official linked to the theft of SoftBank secrets
The Yomiuri Shimbun reports: The No. 2-ranked member of the Russian trade office in Japan is suspected of abetting a former SoftBank Corp. employee arrested for handing over company secrets, according to sources. The employee, Yutaka Araki, was arrested last month on suspicion of illegally obtaining trade secrets of the firm at the instigation of…
Ex-CIA Employee Wrongly Blamed for Leak, Defense Argues
Rebecca Davis O’Brien reports: Federal prosecutors have unfairly blamed a former Central Intelligence Agency employee for the 2017 disclosure of a trove of CIA hacking tools, the former employee’s lawyer told a federal jury Tuesday. The lawyer, Sabrina Shroff, said the government pinned the 2017 leak on her client, Joshua Adam Schulte, because he was an…
PA: Johnstown woman steals medical records, money from business
Patrick Buchnowski reports: A Johnstown woman has been charged with stealing $3,350 from the Southmont business were she once worked in order to feed her drug habit, and then removing medical records to cover up the crime, authorities allege. Wast Hills Regional police charged Shannon Lee Shander, 46, of the 100 block of Fair Oaks…
FL: Clinic worker pleads guilty to identity theft
Austin L. Miller reports: A 49-year-old Leesburg woman pleaded guilty in the federal courthouse in Ocala Thursday to charges of aggravated identity theft and wire fraud. Stacey Lavette Hendricks faces up to 20 years behind bars on the wire fraud charge, followed by a mandatory two-year term for identity theft, according to federal authorities. Read…