Terrence McEachern reports: The College of Physicians and Surgeons of Saskatchewan (CPSS) has laid charges against two Regina doctors for allegedly using patient contact information improperly without consent. The matters involving Dr. Lanishen Bhagaloo and Dr. Nivas Juggernath of Gateway Alliance Medical will either go to a penalty hearing if the accused admit to the…
NC: 2 charged with ID theft
WCNC reports: Police arrested a man and woman accused of identity theft in the Charlotte area. CMPD charged Brent Caltagirone and Karima Lane with identity theft and conspiracy to commit identity theft and trafficking in stolen IDs on September 26. Detectives determined through an investigation that Caltagirone was given the names and social security numbers…
Canadian doctors charged over privacy breach
Terrence McEachern reports: The College of Physicians and Surgeons of Saskatchewan (CPSS) has laid charges against two Regina doctors for allegedly using patient contact information improperly without consent. The matters involving Dr. Lanishen Bhagaloo and Dr. Nivas Juggernath of Gateway Alliance Medical will either go to a penalty hearing if the accused admit to the…
ID Theft Service Customer Gets 27 Months
Brian Krebs reports: A Florida man was sentenced today to 27 months in prison for trying to purchase Social Security numbers and other data from an identity theft service that pulled consumer records from a subsidiary of credit bureau Experian. Derric Theoc, 36, pleaded guilty to attempting to purchase Social Security and bank account records on more than…
Provo City School District suffers data breach
Barbara Christiansen reports: Employees of the Provo City School District may have an extra concern facing them as the district has discovered a data breach. There was a phishing attack and someone gained access to an employee’s email account. That account contained files with sensitive, personal identification information for about half of the district’s employees….
California Amends Data Breach Notification Law, Does Not Require Mandatory Offering of Credit Monitoring
Andrew Hoffman writes: California Governor Jerry Brown signed into law an amendment to California’s data breach notification law on Monday. Although at least one news outlet has reported that the law requires a company to offer credit monitoring services, this interpretation is misguided. Rather, the law only places restrictions on certain companies if they choose to offer identity theft prevention and…