Fox5 reports: A San Diego man has pleaded guilty to his role in a scheme that took millions of dollars from U.S. servicemembers by utilizing stolen identity information, the Department of Justice said Friday. Trorice Crawford, 32, entered his plea Thursday to one count of conspiracy to launder monetary instruments and faces up to 20…
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NYC Health & Hospitals Corp. investigating alleged employee wrongdoing
NYC Health & Hospitals Corp. posted a notice this week (reproduced below) that suggests that a rogue employee may have been selling PHI to law firms or clinics that specialize in motor vehicle accident patients. Of note, this notice does not specify any one hospital where the employee worked. Did the employee have access to…
UK: NHS radiographer, 32, faces jail after illegally accessing more than 200 female patients’ personal records before hounding them for dates
Sophie Law reports: An NHS radiographer who illegally accessed the personal records of more than 200 female patients before pestering them for dates is facing jail. Andrew Stewart, 32, who worked at hospitals in Lanarkshire and Ayrshire, used his position to look up patient files of women he had been treating and made a note of their contact…
Police: Court clerk sealed court cases involving her family
AP reported: A former Rhode Island court clerk has been charged with illegally accessing and then sealing without a judge’s authority cases involving herself or her family. Rhode Island State Police on Tuesday announced that 51-year-old Lynn Gaulin, of Smithfield, faces three counts of access to a computer for fraudulent purposes. Read more on AP….
UK: ICO enforcement action for insider snooping breach
From the Information Commissioner’s Office, this announcement: A former Social Services Support Officer at Dorset County Council has been prosecuted for accessing Social Care records without authorisation. An internal investigation found that Ms Shipsey had inappropriately accessed the Social Care records without any business need to do so. The records related to four individuals known…
FL: Baker Co. student could face felony for reportedly hacking school’s WiFi to avoid doing school work
Nick Perreault reports: A 12-year-old student could face a felony charge after reportedly hacking into the Baker County Middle School’s WiFi about two weeks ago, all because the student didn’t want to do school work. On Nov. 13, the student used a school-issued laptop to get the school’s IP address. Using another student’s cell phone,…