From the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Northern District of Oklahoma: Daniel Trenton Krueger, one of two leaders of the computer hacking group known as Team Digi7al, was sentenced today to serve twenty-four months in federal prison for hacking the U.S. Navy, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, and over 50 public and private computer systems, U.S. Attorney Danny C….
FL: Hollywood Man Sentenced To Over 12 Years For Identity Theft Tax Refund Fraud Case Involving Theft Of Over 5,000 Identities
There’s a follow-up to a case previously noted on DataBreaches.net, and it appears to be yet another case of an insider breach to fuel a tax refund fraud scheme in Florida, but we still don’t know the name of the company or covered entity from whom the identity information was stolen. Nor do we know whether…
NJ: Medical records of 40,000 patients stolen from shed behind doctor's office
Patrick Villanova reports that a storage shed containing the medical records of approximately 40,000 patients was broken into Tuesday and all the files were stolen. The files belonged to patients seen between 1982 and 2009 by Dr. Nisar A. Quraishi, an internist with an office at 1 Chopin Court in Jersey City. Quraishi, who is…
Lawsuit against USC Medical Center after photo of patient's injuries uploaded to the Internet
Matt Reynolds reports: A woman who tried to kill herself by stabbing pencils into her eyes sued USC Medical Center for privacy violations, claiming that a photo of her injuries went viral after an employee shared the image. Jane Doe and her conservator David Bliss sued Los Angeles County, USC Medical Center, and Joshua Shivers,…
Ebola and Privacy: Snooping, Confidentiality, and HIPAA
Daniel Solove writes: One of the things that struck me about the Ebola cases at Dallas Presbyterian Hospital was that all of the Ebola victims were named almost immediately. How could this happen? In all the swirling news coverage, I was struck by the fact that few were asking the question: Why were all of…
Tenet agrees to pay $32.5 million to settle 17 year-old privacy breach class-action lawsuit
There’s been a settlement in a breach-related lawsuit that many of us probably never heard of as the breach was more than 17 years ago. Jim Mustian reports: A hospital chain has agreed to pay up to $32.5 million to settle a class-action lawsuit filed in 1997 after stacks of medical records sat unattended for…