AP reports: A former Department of Veterans Affairs employee has been sentenced to six months in prison for leaking the medical records of Richard Ojeda as the former Army major was running for Congress in West Virginia. Jeffrey Miller of Huntington was sentenced Tuesday in federal court. Miller, 40, acknowledged accessing the medical records of…
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Data breach a concern after New Milford IT arrest
The town is striving to better protect its employees in the wake of a data breach this fall and the former information technology director’s arrest Friday. Kendrick Protzman, who served as the IT director from 2002 to 2019, is accused of releasing the personal information of current and former town employees when he was no longer…
UK: Community order for hacker who stole over 10,000 files from Royal Stoke Hospital
Sometimes even when you try to give people a break or a second chance, they just double down on the problematic behavior…. From the Crown Prosecution Service: A former Royal Stoke Hospital employee, who used malicious software to crack the passwords of his co-workers and access over 10,000 confidential hospital files, has been given a…
Former employees held for data theft from pharma firm in Hyderabad
Express News Service reports: Four persons were arrested by the Cyber Crime wing of Cyberabad police for stealing confidential data from a pharma company. Using the patented data of the firm, the accused manufactured similar products at Visakhapatnam. The accused are Gunturu Srikanth Reddy, Mekala Krishna Reddy, Mekala Venkat Reddy and S Yogeswara Rao. Read…
UK: Former social worker prosecuted for unlawful data disclosures
From the Information Commissioner’s Office: A former social worker has been prosecuted for passing the personal information of service users to a third party provider for Local Authority young person placements. Leo Kirk unlawfully disclosed referrals for residential or foster placements of vulnerable young people aged 16-18 years old. The referrals contained sensitive personal data…
IE: Hospital staff to be investigated over alleged ‘derogatory’ online posts
Paul Cullen reports: University Hospital Limerick says it plans to investigate staff over the alleged leaking of confidential patient information as well as “derogatory” Facebook posts. Staff have been told they may face disciplinary action for remarks on social media “made in the name of the HSE” which are offensive or derogatory. Read more on Irish Times.