[Dataloss] (update) Medical group manager gets prison for stealing patients' records

[lyger]

(for those keeping track of the Data Loss Database - Open Source, this 
event would be DL-0053)

http://attrition.org/dataloss/dldos.html


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From: InfoSec News <alerts at infosecnews.org>
Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2007 00:16:28 -0500 (CDT)

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/10/10/BA6VSN2NJ.DTL

SAN JOSE - A former branch manager at the San Jose Medical Group has
been sentenced to almost two years in prison for stealing medical
records for about 187,000 patients, federal prosecutors said today.

Joseph Nathaniel Harris, 44, pleaded guilty in May to one count of
health care-related theft after he stole computer equipment from his
former employer, including a DVD that contained patients' names, Social
Security numbers, medical diagnoses and other information, the U.S.
attorney's office said.

Harris was sentenced Friday in U.S. District Court in San Jose to 21
months in prison and three years of supervised release. Judge Jeremy
Fogel also ordered him to pay $145,154 in restitution.

Harris, now an Anaheim resident, was directed to begin his sentence Jan.
4.

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