Karen Middleton reports: When she addressed the annual conference of the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners in Perth last week, Health Minister Sussan Ley was already in a hostile environment. […] Ley revealed that the health department had inadvertently committed a potentially serious breach of the Privacy Act by deliberately publishing supposedly anonymous Medicare…
NY: Corinth pharmacist used customer ID to steal opioid
Times Union reports: A Saratoga County pharmacist was arrested Monday after she assumed a customer’s identity in order to steal hydrocodone, the Saratoga County Sheriff’s Office said Mary B. Murphy, 48, of Ballston Spa, was charged with second-degree forgery and first-degree identity theft and falsifying a business record. Read more on Times Union.
Ex-Arkansas hospital orderly sentenced for identity theft
AP reports: A Texas man has been sentenced to two years in prison for theft and for stealing the identities of patients at an Arkansas hospital where he was an orderly. Federal court records show 28-year-old Sir John Ashley Holliday of Dallas was sentenced Thursday in U.S. District Court in Little Rock after pleading guilty in May…
Feds rehire contractor linked to massive OPM data breach
Nicole Duran reports: The Obama administration has rehired an outside contractor that was partly responsible for what many think was the largest theft of personal information from the government in U.S. history, even as it continues to boast of several new steps it is taking to enhance federal cybersecurity. […] One of them is Key…
Contracting in the Cloud: Who Pays for a Data Breach?
In a recent white paper I co-authored with Protenus, Inc., we noted the significant risks of a breach involving a vendor or business associate. In following up in a subsequent post, I also included a “pop quiz” for readers to use to test their understanding about the terms of any contract they have in terms of…
Man arrested for streaming porn to electronic billboard
AP reports on this story out of Indonesia: Indonesian police say a man they arrested for broadcasting pornography on an electronic billboard in the country’s capital gained access to the system after it displayed its log-on credentials. Jakarta Police Chief Muhammad Iriawan said Wednesday that the suspect, 24-year-old Samudera Al Hakam Ralial, admits he hacked…