June 11 – Attorney General Lisa Madigan today announced charges against former Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) employees for a scheme to steal thousands of dollars from the agency’s deferred compensation program that involved submitting fake death certificates for their living children and stealing the identities of former coworkers. Donella Anderson Watkins, 41, of Lansing, was…
Medical privacy breach was "under color of state law"
Wait a Second! reports an update to a lawsuit mentioned previously on this blog. Four guys who worked for the New York City Fire Department held a grudge against one of their colleagues. According to the plaintiff, these guys accessed plaintiff’s medical records from the FDNY system and leaked them to the Village Voice, damaging…
AU: Review blames Immigration for data breach exposing 10,000 detainees
Paul Farrell and Oliver Laughland report: A major data breach that exposed the personal details of almost 10,000 people in detention was caused by Immigration Department failures to check and approve documents for web publication, an independent review has found. The report by management consultants KPMG, which was published on Thursday, reveals that the document containing…
Health records of nearly 34,000 patients stolen from Santa Rosa office
Elizabeth M. Cosin reports: A thumb drive containing health records of nearly 34,000 patients was stolen from a Santa Rosa medical office last week, officials said Wednesday. The drive was stolen June 2 from an unlocked employee locker at the former Redwood Regional Medical Group imaging center at 121 Sotoyome Dr., according to St. Joseph…
CNA's father gets 7-year sentence in nursing home identity theft case
Tim Mullaney reports: A Florida man has been sentenced to seven years in prison for a tax fraud that victimized nursing home residents and involved his daughter, a certified nursing assistant, federal and state authorities recently announced. Norman V. Charlton, 50, pleaded guilty to identity theft and conspiracy charges in March and was sentenced Friday…
MO: Van gets stolen with medical records, could keep boy scouts from attending camp
Kasey Babbitt reports: Parents of boy scouts in troop 221 are worried that their children’s medical records have been compromised, after a family van is stolen in Independence. Kathleen Pace says she volunteers for her son`s boy scout troop and was in charge of gathering copies of the children`s physicals because they need them for…