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VA: Carilion Clinic employees disciplined for violating patient privacy in high-profile case

Posted on August 20, 2015 by Dissent

Luanne Rife reports: Carilion Clinic has fired or disciplined more than a dozen employees after they peered into a patient’s medical records without any clinical reason for doing so. Carilion declined to say how many of the 14 employees — 11 in the New River Valley and three in Roanoke — were fired, but said…

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AL: Woman pleads guilty to $7.5 million identity-theft scheme

Posted on August 19, 2015 by Dissent

There’s an update to a case previously noted on this site. Talashia Hinton pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court to using information stolen from state of Alabama databases maintained by the state of Alabama to file false tax returns and steal millions from the government. The indictment contends that Hinton worked with co-conspirators to file…

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Former U.S. Government Employee Charged in Computer Hacking and Cyber Stalking Scheme

Posted on August 19, 2015 by Dissent

A former locally-employed staff member of the U.S. Embassy in London was charged with engaging in a hacking and cyberstalking scheme in which, using stolen passwords, he obtained sexually explicit photographs and other personal information from victims’ email and social media accounts, and threatened to share the photographs and personal information unless the victims ceded…

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Visionworks Settles Maryland AG Charges Over Data Breaches

Posted on August 19, 2015 by Dissent

Attorney General Brian E. Frosh today announced that the Office of the Attorney General Consumer Protection Division entered into a settlement agreement with Visionworks, LLC, resolving an investigation into two data breaches the company experienced in 2014 that affected more than 72,000 Marylanders. Visionworks failed to properly secure consumers’ personal information while upgrading to fully encrypted…

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Hillary’s email firm was run from a loft apartment with its servers in the BATHROOM

Posted on August 18, 2015 by Dissent

Hugo Daniel reports: The IT company Hilary Clinton chose to maintain her private email account was run from a loft apartment and its servers were housed in the bathroom closet, Daily Mail Online can reveal. Daily Mail Online tracked down ex-employees of Platte River Networks in Denver, Colorado, who revealed the outfit’s strong links to the Democratic…

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Update on IRS breach affecting Katy ISD employees

Posted on August 18, 2015 by Dissent

Several weeks ago, Katy ISD in Texas started notifying 11,658 current and former employees that their SSN and personal information were on a flash drive that was lost by an IRS employee during an audit. Today, Landan Kuhlmann reports that the district enrolled all the affected employees in a credit-monitoring program provided by iLock360 for…

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