From CBC: Another veterans’ advocate says government officials breached his privacy by unnecessarily going into his medical record hundreds of times, one year after Sean Bruyea settled a similar complaint. In an interview with Evan Solomon, host of CBC Radio’s The House, Dennis Manuge said he decided to look into his own file when he…
IL: Debit card numbers stolen at Height’s McDonald’s
An employee at the McDonald’s restaurant at 3717 N. Prospect Road was arrested Friday for allegedly using customers’ debit-card numbers to buy goods online. Ericka Hendon, 23, of 7804 N. St. Joseph Court in Peoria Heights was arrested on 21 counts of deceptive practice, 21 counts of identity theft, four counts of felony theft and…
(update) Federal Reserve Bank hacker gets 10 year sentence
Thom Weidlich reports: A Malaysian man who pleaded guilty to conducting a credit-card scheme and who was accused of hacking the Federal Reserve’s computers got a 10-year prison sentence. Lin Mun Poo, 32, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Dora L. Irizarry in Brooklyn, New York. In April, he pleaded guilty to illegally possessing…
Personal Genomics And Privacy
Gunnar De Winter writes: The advances in genetics and genomics have given rise to a flourishing personal genomics industry. All you need is a credit card and you can order a DNA kit on the internet. Once it arrives, all you have to do is rub a swab over your cheeck and send it back. A…
Thousands of X-rays stolen from St. Joseph hospital
Wow. I no sooner get done blogging about x-ray theft and lo, there’s another one. Andrea K. Walker reports: Baltimore County police are looking for someone who stole thousands of X-rays from St. Joseph Medical Center in Towson in what they believe was a scheme to extract the silver from the images. The hospital said Friday that someone posed as a…
Security Breach at Lawrence Memorial Hospital
A public notice issued by Lawrence Memorial Hospital in Lawrence, Kansas that appeared on 6News (but not, apparently, on the hospital’s web site yet): On October 28, 2011, Lawrence Memorial Hospital learned that certain information maintained by Mid Continent Credit Services, Inc., d/b/a Blue Sky Credit, the hospital’s vendor for online patient bill-pay services, was inadvertently…