The Associated Press reports that Scott Graham of Ohio faces prison time after pleading guilty in federal court to felony charges of intercepting electronic communications by using spyware to spy on a woman’s computer activities. By spying on her, he also accidentally retrieved confidential information from the computer system at Akron Children’s Hospital, where she…
Texan sentenced to 111 months for access device fraud, ID theft
David Henry Anthony, 38, has been sentenced to a total of 111 months in federal prison without parole – 87 months for access device fraud to be followed by a mandatory 24 months for the aggravated identity theft conviction.prison for access device fraud and aggravated identity theft. The prison terms are to be followed by…
UK: Reprieve for the dentist who lost 10,000 records
Amanda Crook reports: A dentist who lost the records of 10,000 patients will be allowed to continue working. Omer Butt left computers and filing cabinets in a van parked on a road in Cheetham Hill while his practice Unsworth Smile Clinic, in Prestwich, was being refurbished. The van and the private dental records were stolen…
Attorney for doctors in WDH privacy breach disputes AG’s finding
Adam D. Krauss continues to update us on this case: An attorney for two doctors impacted by the privacy breach at Wentworth-Douglass Hospital says the Office of the Attorney General would have found WDH had to notify patients if the state knew a rogue employee accessed patients’ social security numbers and sensitive insurance policy data….
B.C. civil servant accused of sending personal data to U.S. border guard
More from CanWest on a Canadian breach reported previously over on PogoWasRight.org: A B.C. government employee under investigation for an alleged privacy breach is accused of e-mailing personal data about government clients to an American border guard in Washington state. Government sources confirmed Friday that the employee, who works from the Lower Mainland for the…
Gonzalez sentencing memo reveals some numbers on breaches
Apart from the fact that I don’t think we should be getting our news about breaches from court filings years after a breach occurs, it is still somewhat interesting when we finally get some numbers — even if they are are estimates or arguable. In a court filing by Albert Gonzalez’s attorney yesterday, there are…