Express News Service reports: VIJAYAWADA: BJP State president Kanna Lakshmi Narayana has shot off a letter to Chief Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy demanding that the chief of IT Grids India Pvt Ltd, D Ashok, who was allegedly involved in a data theft case, be arrested immediately. The senior BJP leader said the arrest of…
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Man pleads guilty in scheme that took millions from military members
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…
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…