Andrew Harris reports: A former Citadel LLC employee pleaded guilty to stealing data from the Chicago investment firm and high-frequency trading computer code from another company. Yihao Ben Pu, 26, who was first charged in 2011, today admitted taking the proprietary information from Citadel that year and to an earlier theft of trade secrets from…
South Korean clinics defy ban on collecting ID
Lee Kyung-min reports: Hospitals continue to collect resident registration numbers from their patients, defying a newly enacted law that bans private entities from gathering personal information. However, they say that they have no choice but to continue to collect the identification numbers from patients since they have no alternatives to distinguish their customers. They insist…
AU: Psychiatric patients' records being aired in court
Harriet Alexander reports: Psychiatrists are handing their patients’ confidential records to the courts amid threats of jail, under a flourishing practice by solicitors of issuing “dirt digging” subpoenas. Some patients have been powerless to prevent details about their past sexual abuse or childhood trauma being aired in court, even in matters where they are not…
Broward woman who stole AT&T customers’ identities gets prison sentence
Paula McMahon reports: A Lauderdale Lakes woman, who admitted she stole the identities of about 18 AT&T customers, has been sentenced to two years and 10 months in federal prison, prosecutors said Thursday. Chouman Emily Syrilien, 25, of Lauderdale Lakes, who is also an amateur rap artist known as Nootchi Bankzz, pleaded guilty earlier this…
Jersey City Medical Center notifies patients after CD with unencrypted PHI lost by UPS
The Jersey City Medical Center is notifying patients whose unencrypted protected health information was on a CD lost by United Parcel Service in June. The CD contained data the center was required to provide to Medicaid, and included patients’ names, social security numbers, and for some patients, date of birth, medical record number, gender, and information…
University of California Santa Barbara alerts employees using direct deposit to potential check fraud
The University of California – Santa Barbara has sent out an update to a breach alert it sent out in July after some employees reported possible check fraud involving their personal checking accounts. In a letter posted on the California Attorney General’s website today, Jim Corkill, Director of Business and Financial Services writes: Our investigation recently…