Eric Leonard, Philip Drechsler and Andrew Blankstein report: A man who worked as a surgical assistant has been arrested on suspicion of stealing identities, financial data, and money from employees and patients while working at several Los Angeles area hospitals, law enforcement sources told NBCLA. James Shannon, also known as James Sannon and other aliases,…
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Little Rock Plastic Surgery releases statement after internal HIPAA breach
KATV reports: A Little Rock plastic surgery clinic released a statement on Friday about a HIPAA breach that happened in July. According to a statement from Little Rock Plastic Surgery, it was discovered on or about July 15, 2019, that a nurse downloaded reports, photos, and other information that contained Protected Health Information of several…
Capital One Hack Prosecution Raises New and Old Questions about Adequacy of CFAA
Timothy H. Gray, Ethan Kisch and Michael F. Buchanan of Patterson Belknap write: On August 28, 2019, almost a month after Paige A. Thompson was arrested based on allegations that she hacked into servers rented by Capital One Financial Corporation, a criminal indictment was returned charging her with one count each of computer and wire…
Ca: Unauthorized Accesses of Health Information Lead to Eleventh Conviction
August 29, 2019 — A former billing clerk with Alberta Health Services (AHS) pleaded guilty in Red Deer Provincial Court to illegally accessing health information under the Health Information Act (HIA) on August 21, 2019. Rosario Aldave was found to have accessed the health records of 52 Albertans without authorization. She received a $5,000 fine and was…
U.S. jury indicts suspected Capital One hacker on wire fraud, data theft
Reuters reports: A federal grand jury has indicted the suspected hacker who obtained personal information of over 100 million people in the Capital One Financial Corp data breach on charges of wire fraud and computer data theft, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) said on Wednesday. Read more on Reuters. Here’s the DOJ’s press release…
IN: Man detained for data theft at Revenue dept.
Sharad Vyas reports: A desktop engineer from the State Information Technology (IT) Department was detained on Tuesday for allegedly stealing data from the Revenue Department, after the government filed a complaint with the Marine Drive police station. The engineer allegedly hacked into 28 computers connected to the Mumbai Collector, Deputy Collector and other tehsil offices….