Katie Stancombe reports: A Lake County woman whose medical records were unknowingly shared with her employer by a Community Hospital worker in Munster who took her x-rays has won a reversal of her dismissed complaint against the hospital. Amanda Henry, who received medical treatment in March 2018 at Community Hospital in Munster, was required to…
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IN: Senior account manager arrested in Bengaluru
Kiran Parashar reports that 40-year-old senior account manager with a multinational software firm has been arrested and charged with stealing the firm’s employee information and client data. Although the Times of India report names the man, they do not name the victim company, his former employer, and the name of the firm does not appear…
LA: Humana notifying some Lafayette customers of possible involvement in privacy breach
The Advocate reports: Humana is notifying about 500 Lafayette customers that their information may have been included in a former employee’s solicitations. In December, Humana terminated a sales agent for violating company policy by emailing his Humana client list to his personal email account. After he was fired, the company says they believe he shared…
St. Mary’s Hospital Still Won’t Say Whether It Notified Patients Of ‘Wall Of Shame’
Erin Rhoda reports: Since news broke this week that employees at St. Mary’s Regional Medical Center in Lewiston created a “wall of shame” of patients with disabilities in 2015 and 2016, the hospital’s parent companies have issued an apology and said those involved were disciplined. But they have been silent on steps they may have taken to notify regulators…
Russia’s Sberbank investigates credit card data leak
Daphne Leprince-Ringuet reports: Russia’s largest bank, Sberbank, is investigating a potential leak of credit card data, saying that ‘criminal wrongdoing’ by an employee is currently their main lead. The bank said that an internal investigation was underway and that at least 200 client accounts could be affected. Read more on ZDNet.
Ca: Edmonton medical clinic employee fined after admitting to health data breaches
Canadian Press reports: An office assistant has been fined for snooping into two people’s health records while she was an employee at an Edmonton medical clinic. Glenda Garcia admitted in provincial court last week that she looked at the data on numerous occasions without a valid reason. Garcia, who was fined a total of just over $4,000, is no longer…