Rebecca Davis O’Brien reports: Federal prosecutors have unfairly blamed a former Central Intelligence Agency employee for the 2017 disclosure of a trove of CIA hacking tools, the former employee’s lawyer told a federal jury Tuesday. The lawyer, Sabrina Shroff, said the government pinned the 2017 leak on her client, Joshua Adam Schulte, because he was an…
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PA: Johnstown woman steals medical records, money from business
Patrick Buchnowski reports: A Johnstown woman has been charged with stealing $3,350 from the Southmont business were she once worked in order to feed her drug habit, and then removing medical records to cover up the crime, authorities allege. Wast Hills Regional police charged Shannon Lee Shander, 46, of the 100 block of Fair Oaks…
FL: Clinic worker pleads guilty to identity theft
Austin L. Miller reports: A 49-year-old Leesburg woman pleaded guilty in the federal courthouse in Ocala Thursday to charges of aggravated identity theft and wire fraud. Stacey Lavette Hendricks faces up to 20 years behind bars on the wire fraud charge, followed by a mandatory two-year term for identity theft, according to federal authorities. Read…
Ca: Former Covenant Health employee fined for privacy breaches after accessing health records of 16 people
Anna Junker reports: A former employee for Covenant Health has been fined after pleading guilty to knowingly accessing health information contrary to the Health Information Act. On Jan. 20, Amanda Vandenberg admitted to illegally accessing health records of 16 people on 465 occasions that occurred at the Misericordia Community Hospital where she was employed as…
Beaumont investigating security breach of 1,200 patient files
Sarah Rahal reports: Beaumont Health officials are investigating a security breach by a former employee who accessed patient information, hospital officials said Saturday. Beaumont notified 1,182 individuals about the incident on Friday saying a now-former employee had unauthorized access of patient information. The employee, who was terminated, is suspected of disclosing information to an individual working…
Iowa DHS data breach: Boxed for shredding, documents were dumped by janitor instead
Andrea May Sahouri reports: The Iowa Department of Human Services reported Friday a data breach that occurred in November involving personal information of 4,784 individuals related to income maintenance and social work cases in Dallas County, according to a DHS news release. A contracted custodial company mistakenly emptied boxes containing documents to be shredded into the office’s…