Nine local authority workers have been sacked after illegally accessing personal details of the public held on the government’s national identity database. In total, 34 council workers were found to have illegally accessed the Customer Information System (CIS) database, part of a linked-up network of systems which constitute the government’s planned national identity database. The…
Category: Breaches
Riverside County Regional Medical Center sued
A patient who sought treatment last year from Riverside County Regional Medical Center has filed an estimated $1 million claim against Riverside County and the hospital that claims a facility employee revealed her medical information without her consent. Tiffany Collins, 26, discovered the information breach earlier this year when she ran into a former classmate…
Quote of the Day
When even the purchase of a pack of cigarettes becomes part of an information database, the surveillance of people’s private lives by technological means has gone too far. That statement is from an editorial in The Japan Times on how the Tobacco Institute of Japan handed over personal data and records of specific tobacco purchases…
Mistress allegedly uses wife’s ID to get teeth fixed
<em>Since I’ve got your husband, can I also have your dental insurance?</em> <blockquote>Marie Swidra really must have wanted her teeth fixed, police say. So badly, in fact, she allegedly used the identity of the estranged wife of the man she’s living with, police said. Swidra, 45, of the 300 block of Doone Road, Fairless Hills,…