Press Release: UMC Physicians (UMCP) is educating employees on approved cloud storage solutions and notifying patients of an incident that may have compromised the privacy of protected health information held by their clinic: UMC Southwest Gastroenterology. UMCP has no evidence of actual or attempted misuse of personal information at this time. On March 12, 2019,…
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NY: Episcopal Health Services – Notice of Data Privacy Event
A press release issued today. On September 18, 2018 Episcopal Health Services became aware of suspicious activity in employee email accounts. We immediately began an investigation to determine what happened and what information may have been affected. With the assistance of third-party forensic investigators, we determined that certain employee email accounts were subject to unauthorized access between…
NY: Gates Chili student arrested, charged with hacking into former superintendent’s email
WHAM reports: A student in the Gates Chili Central School District is being charged as an adult after allegedly hacking into the account of the former superintendent. Ajay Bhattacharyya, 17, was arraigned Friday evening on eight felony counts: Two counts of computer trespass, two counts of identity theft and four counts of falsifying business records….
Memorial Hermann worker accused of stealing patients’ credit card numbers to pay rent
Sophia Beausoleil reports: A Memorial Hermann employee has been suspended after he was charged with credit and debit card abuse. He’s accused of stealing patients information to pay for rent, buy food and purchase rides to work. According to Harris County court records, 26-year-old Elliott Phylow admitted to Harris County Precinct Four constables that he…
Turkish watchdog fines Facebook over data breach
The Daily Sabah reports: Turkey’s Personal Data Protection Authority (KVKK) issued a 1,650,000 Turkish lira ($270,000) administrative fine against social media platform Facebook over data breach and failure to report the issue to authorities. The watchdog launched a direct investigation against Facebook over Engineering Director Tomer Bar’s statement released on Dec. 14, 2018 over an…
Two Hendry County high schools go too far with senior pranks
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…