Terrace Myles reports on some recent pranks, including this one: Labelle Senior High School students managed to send an email addressed to all faculty, staff, and students about a “Mandatory Penis Inspection,” yes you read that correctly. “It was something funny, but at the same time it was something scary,” said Kenneth Carrion, a parent…
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VCU patient’s personal information stolen twice
WRIC reports: Imagine having your personal and medical information stolen not once, but twice. It happened to a VCU Health System patient. And it was an inside job. “It’s extremely frustrating,” said that patient, who our sister station WRIC is not identifying. “You live in that fear, will my money be taken, will accounts be opened…
Here’s the email Tesla sent employees telling them to stop leaking info
Lora Kolodny reports: Tesla’s security team sent a warning to employees this week to stop leaking company information. The email, which was shared with CNBC and verified with multiple current employees who requested anonymity, warned that outsiders who “will do anything to see us fail” are “targeting” employees for information via social networks and other…
LA: Madison Parish Hospital notifies 1,436 patients whose protected health information was improperly shared
Madison Parish Hospital Service District reported that 1,436 patients were impacted by an incident reported to HHS as Unauthorized Access/Disclosure of PHI located on “Desktop Computer, Email.” A notice on their web site provides some addition information: NOTICE OF PRIVACY BREACH We take patient privacy very seriously, and it is important to us that you…
Employee behind DJI data leak on Github sentenced to prison and fined
Jill Shen reports: A former employee of Chinese drone maker DJI was sentenced to six months in prison and fined RMB 200,000 [almost $30,000.00 USD] for unauthorized disclosure of the company’s data to code-sharing platform Github, according to the prosecutor involved in the case. The office of the People’s Procuratorate of Shenzhen posted on messaging app WeChat…
38 patient records viewed ‘inappropriately’ by St. Boniface Hospital employee
Elisha Dacey reports: St. Boniface Hospital says 38 patients had their records accessed “inappropriately” over a week in March. The records were looked at between Feb. 28 and March 6 by an employee who had access to the hospital’s record system, they said. Read more on GlobalNews.ca.