Whether it’s the healthcare sector, government, or any other sector, if you’re not using adequate tools to monitor and audit your employees’ access to personal information records, it will cost you sooner or later. Eric Roper reports: The long list of lawsuits against Minnesota governments for employees improperly snooping into the state driver’s license database…
Category: U.S.
First HIPAA enforcement action for lack of timely breach notification settles for $475,000
OCR has announced a settlement involving a breach that I never even reported on this site at the time and that doesn’t appear to have been in the news at the time. A quick look at HHS’s “Wall of Shame” shows two entries for the incident at issue: one entry says it was reported on…
VA: Former Nurse Sentenced for ID Theft and Bank Fraud
There’s an update to a case previously noted on this site. Capri M. Williams, 26, of Richmond, was sentenced today to three years in prison for identity theft and bank fraud crimes related to her stealing personal identifying information (PII) of hundreds of patients while employed at Commonwealth Primary Care (CPC), Inc., in Richmond. Williams…
Founder of Fake Prison Charity sentenced for stealing Prisoner Identities, Claiming Millions of Dollars in false Tax Refunds
Qadir Shabazz, a/k/a Deangelo Moore, a/k/a Deangelo Muhammad, has been sentenced to a prison term of 23 years, one month for running a massive, multi-state fraud scheme in which he operated a fake prison charity that stole thousands of prisoners’ identities to apply for millions of dollars in fraudulent income tax refund dollars. Shabazz was…
PA: Alleged computer hacker pleads not guilty, heads to trial in Feb.
James Halpin reports: A city man facing federal computer hacking charges pleaded not guilty Wednesday. Justin Bodnar, 27, is charged with one count each of illegally accessing a protected computer and intentionally damaging a protected computer connected to incidents in 2012 and 2013. Prosecutors allege he accessed the emails of someone in an attempt to…
Avison Young says ex-brokers took confidential information
Ryan Ori reports: Commercial real estate brokerage Avison Young sued three brokers who recently left for another firm, accusing them of taking confidential information on their way out. Avison Young alleges that industrial brokers Keith Puritz, Brett Kroner and Eric Fischer “downloaded massive amounts of data” from the firm before resigning to work at rival…