{"id":384136,"date":"2010-03-03T11:45:58","date_gmt":"2010-03-03T16:45:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chicagopressrelease.com\/press-releases\/lawsuit-claims-sensitive-information-leaked"},"modified":"2010-03-03T11:45:58","modified_gmt":"2010-03-03T16:45:58","slug":"lawsuit-claims-sensitive-information-leaked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/384136","title":{"rendered":"Lawsuit claims sensitive information leaked"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ELGIN\u00a0(STMW)\u00a0 &#8212; Officials from a northwest suburban medical clinic remain silent about claims they allowed sensitive information on AIDS patients to be leaked, the Courier-News is reporting.<\/p>\n<p>\nCalls to the Open Door Clinic of Greater Elgin, 164 Division St. in Elgin, were not returned. The allegations, made in a lawsuit filed last week in the 16th Judicial Circuit Court in Geneva by five AIDS patients, claimed the clinic failed to secure personal info, including their HIV\/AIDS status, making it available to the public.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe clinic is a non-profit organization that treats people with HIV\/AIDS and offers an array of services including lab testing, counseling and alternative care.<\/p>\n<p>\nAccording to the complaint, a staff computer with a client list of more than 200 patients was accessed and became public domain because the computer had a file-sharing, peer-to-peer program installed &#8212; the same type used for popular music downloading sites such as Napster.<\/p>\n<p>\nOnce the information was made public, it was &#8220;searched, accessed, downloaded and re-shared by various P2P file sharing users throughout the world from May 26, 2008, through the present,&#8221; according to the complaint.<\/p>\n<p>\nIn at least two cases, information later was stolen and used to commit identity fraud, the complaint says.<\/p>\n<p>\nOne of those who allegedly downloaded the list, according to the complaint, was a known identity thief from Apache Junction, Ariz., who continued to share the information on other file-sharing networks.<\/p>\n<p>\nNone of the plaintiffs in the case was named in the suit, which stated only that they were from Elgin, Aurora, St. <span id=\"more-21852\"><\/span>Charles, Naperville and Schaumburg.<\/p>\n<p>\nA hearing in the case is scheduled for May 13. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Read the original article from <a  href=\"http:\/\/wbbm780.com\/content_page.php?contentType=4&amp;contentId=5679870\" title=\"Lawsuit claims sensitive information leaked\" rel='nofollow'>WBBM News Radio<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Distributed via <a href=\"http:\/\/chicagopressrelease.com\" rel='nofollow'>Chicago Press Release Services<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/6bGV9FJD7Vn1eObBCAb2a9mQrQs\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/6bGV9FJD7Vn1eObBCAb2a9mQrQs\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/6bGV9FJD7Vn1eObBCAb2a9mQrQs\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/6bGV9FJD7Vn1eObBCAb2a9mQrQs\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.chicagopressrelease.com\/~ff\/windycitynews?a=kyF5vP-Iv-0:dR_99KotgRQ:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/windycitynews?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.chicagopressrelease.com\/~ff\/windycitynews?a=kyF5vP-Iv-0:dR_99KotgRQ:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/windycitynews?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.chicagopressrelease.com\/~ff\/windycitynews?a=kyF5vP-Iv-0:dR_99KotgRQ:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/windycitynews?i=kyF5vP-Iv-0:dR_99KotgRQ:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/windycitynews\/~4\/kyF5vP-Iv-0\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ELGIN\u00a0(STMW)\u00a0 &#8212; Officials from a northwest suburban medical clinic remain silent about claims they allowed sensitive information on AIDS patients to be leaked, the Courier-News is reporting. Calls to the Open Door Clinic of Greater Elgin, 164 Division St. in Elgin, were not returned. The allegations, made in a lawsuit filed last week in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-384136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=384136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384136\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=384136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=384136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=384136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}