Alice Yan reports: An Air China flight attendant accused of publishing personal information on social media about the celebrities he served in the air has been suspended, the company said on Friday. The airline launched an investigation after aviation industry blogger Chao Cewei blew the whistle on a post made on Weibo – China’s Twitter-like…
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IL: Former Lurie Children’s employee wrongfully accessed patient data, hospital says
WLS reports: Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago is notifying some of its patients about a former employee’s access of patients’ medical records. On Nov. 15, the hospital learned that between Sept. 10, 2018 and Sept. 22, 2019, an employee accessed certain patients’ medical records without a business reason to do so,…
UK: Ex-employee of ICT contractor jailed for Jet2 cyber attacks
A disgruntled ex-employee has been jailed after he admitted carrying out cyber attacks against Jet2 which took down their computer systems for more than 12 hours. NCA investigators proved that 27-year-old Scott Burns from Morley, Leeds, illegally accessed a domain operated by Dart Group and their subsidiary, Jet2, on two separate occasions in January 2018….
AZ: Ex-workers at Tempe financial firm accused of theft, computer tampering
Nicole Garcia reports: Two former employees of a financial firm in Tempe are arrested in what police are calling a multi-million dollar case of fraud. Officers booked Dria Carr and Eric Hernandez, both of Phoenix, on felony counts of theft and computer tampering. According to detectives, while working at “Freedom Financial Network” in Tempe, Carr sent…
Saudi hacker gives 19 students full grades, faces jail and millions in fine
Mariam Nabbout reports: A Saudi student hacked into his university’s system to change his classmates’ grades and is now facing legal trouble in the kingdom. This week, the country’s public prosecution recommended the young man receives a four-year jail sentence and a 3-million Saudi riyal fine ($799,804). The defendant, who studies at the King Faisal University in Hofuf,…
MI: ‘Curious’ hospital employee improperly accessed thousands of medical records
Anya van Wagtendonk reports: Private medical records that may have included Social Security numbers of more than 4,000 patients at a Grand Haven hospital were improperly accessed by a hospital employee over more than three years. Between May 2016 and Oct. 2019, a hospital employee accessed the records of 4,013 patients at the North Ottawa…