AP reported: A former Rhode Island court clerk has been charged with illegally accessing and then sealing without a judge’s authority cases involving herself or her family. Rhode Island State Police on Tuesday announced that 51-year-old Lynn Gaulin, of Smithfield, faces three counts of access to a computer for fraudulent purposes. Read more on AP….
Nebraska Medical Center is warning patients about data breach
Siouxland News reports on an insider breach affecting patients at Nebraska Medical Center. Officials say they were running an audit of their medical record system and found an employee got into those records sometime between July and October. They say that employee should not have been in those records. Hospital officials were not able say…
UK: ICO enforcement action for insider snooping breach
From the Information Commissioner’s Office, this announcement: A former Social Services Support Officer at Dorset County Council has been prosecuted for accessing Social Care records without authorisation. An internal investigation found that Ms Shipsey had inappropriately accessed the Social Care records without any business need to do so. The records related to four individuals known…
Merck cyberattack’s $1.3 billion question: Was it an act of war?
Riley Griffin of Bloomberg reports: By the time Deb Dellapena arrived for work at Merck & Co.’s 90-acre campus north of Philadelphia, there was a handwritten sign on the door: The computers are down. It was worse than it seemed. Some employees who were already at their desks at Merck offices across the U.S. were…
Good news, bad news: Presbyterian Healthcare Services said data stolen in May breach doesn’t appear to have been misused, but more patients impacted
Robert Nott reports: Nearly four months after Presbyterian Healthcare Services reported a data breach that allowed unauthorized access to personal information belonging to over 180,000 patients and health plan members, the provider sent out a notification letter telling its members the company does not believe anyone has improperly used that data. But the update also…
Dutch politician faces three years in prison for hacking iCloud accounts and leaking nudes
Catalin Cimpanu reports: Dutch prosecutors have asked a judge for a three-year prison sentence for a local politician who doubled as a hacker and breached the personal iCloud accounts of more than 100 women, stealing and then leaking sexually explicit photos and videos online. Read more on ZDNet.