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…
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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…
Former Yahoo software engineer pleads guilty to using work access to hack into Yahoo users’ personal accounts
SAN JOSE – Reyes Daniel Ruiz pleaded guilty in federal court in San Jose today to hacking into the accounts of thousands of Yahoo users in search of private and personal records, primarily sexual images and videos of the account holders, announced United States Attorney David L. Anderson and Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent…
After two nights in jail, St. Louis lawyer ordered to pay $775,000 to her former firm for copying client files
Joel Currier reports that a former law firm employee who allegedly helped herself to copies of 22,000 files one week before she resigned for a new position elsewhere, has been ordered to pay her former employee more than $775,000. St. Louis lawyer Chelsea Merta, who was found in contempt of court earlier this year, has…
UK: IT contractor jailed for fraud offenses against vulnerable people
The Metropolitan Police issued the following news release: Graham Broomfield, 54 (5.01.65) of Tye Green Village, Harlow was sentenced to five years’ imprisonment at Snaresbrook Crown Court on Friday, 20 September. He had previously pleaded guilty to fraud by abuse of position. Detective Sergeant Gemma Cole, from the Specialist Crime Command, said: “Broomfield’s crimes were…