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AU: Five people charged for defrauding Medicare of more than $500,000 after police found thousands of stolen patient records

Posted on March 9, 2016 by Dissent

Martha Azzi reports: Five people have been charged with using fake and stolen medical records to defraud more than $500,000 from Medicare. Patient records illegally taken from a string of medical clinics in Sydney’s southwest have been used to lodge thousands of fraudulent claims, police say. Read more on Daily Mail.

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JP: Ezaki Glico reports possible customer data breach

Posted on March 8, 2016 by Dissent

JIJI reports: Confectionery maker Ezaki Glico Co. said Monday that personal data on users of its online shopping site may have been compromised following unauthorized accesses. Up to 83,194 sets of personal data may have been stolen, including 43,744 that contained credit card information, according to the firm. Ezaki Glico is investigating the incident through…

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Sask. health region employee who ‘snooped’ on 900+ records won’t get job back

Posted on March 8, 2016 by Dissent

Micki Cowan reports: A Saskatchewan X-ray technologist won’t be getting her job back after she was fired for “snooping” on hundreds of patient records without due cause, a breach of the Health Information Protection Act. A recently released labour arbitration decision shows that the employee — who claimed she was looking at the records for “educational purposes” — has been denied a…

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Update on Canadian Data Breach Regulations: Consultation

Posted on March 8, 2016 by Dissent

Timothy M. Banks of Dentons writes: Innovations, Science and Economic Development Canada has issued a consultation paper asking Canadians what should be included in new data breach regulations that will be made under the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act(PIPEDA). The consultation will close on May 31, 2016. Following this consultation process, the Canadian Government will publish…

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Finland probes ‘extensive’ data breach at Foreign Ministry

Posted on March 8, 2016 by Dissent

Kati Pohjanpalo and Kasper Viita report: Finland’s Security Police is investigating the infiltration of the Foreign Ministry’s data network by spies, Foreign Minister Erkki Tuomioja said. “The data breach was an extensive attempt to spy on an entire network,” Tuomioja told reporters here Thursday after broadcaster MTV3 reported the ministry’s network was the target of…

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Ca: Medical files of 4,000 Vancouver patients stolen, raising alarms

Posted on March 7, 2016 by Dissent

Susan Lazaruk reports: Thieves who burgled a West Broadway office last month stole the personal medical files of 4,000 Vancouver patients, likely by far the largest privacy breach of medical records in B.C. in 10 years or longer. […] The theft of the 4,000 medical histories, which included names, addresses and B.C. Care Card numbers,…

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