WASHINGTON – A US Navy sailor was caught unlawfully making an attempt to drag up President Biden’s official well being information thrice in February, the Pentagon revealed Tuesday.
The unnamed service member tried to entry the 81-year-old president’s restricted medical file whereas trawling an inside authorities database on Feb. 23 – 5 days earlier than presidential doctor Dr. Kevin O’Connor publicly launched the outcomes of Biden’s annual bodily examination.
“A sailor assigned to [Navy Medicine Readiness and Training Command in Fort Belvoir, Va.] searched the identify ‘Joseph Biden’ in MHS Genesis, the Navy Well being System’s digital well being report, out of curiosity,” Navy spokesman Cmdr. Tim Hawkins stated in a press release.
“A co-worker reported the sailor’s breach of the Well being Insurance coverage Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA),” he added.
The information comes as questions persist about Biden’s well being and psychological capability following his abysmal efficiency on the controversy stage June 27 in opposition to Republican Donald Trump.
“The report that the sailor inappropriately accessed was not the digital well being report of the president of the USA,” Air Pressure Brig. Gen. Pat Ryder, the Pentagon’s press secretary, stated Tuesday.
“The Secretary [of Defense] was notified in February when the Navy turned conscious,” Ryder added. “The Navy additionally notified the White Home via channels on the time.”
Upon studying of the privateness breech, the Navy Felony Investigative Providers (NCIS) launched an investigation, which Hawkins stated wrapped up on April 24.
“The MHS Genesis system is a safe well being system and at no time was the President’s private info compromised,” he stated.
The wrongdoer acquired an administrative punishment and continues to function an active-duty sailor, ABC Information reported, citing US officers.
Tuesday’s announcement confirms yet one more information breech by a uniformed service member.
In March, former Massachusetts Nationwide Guard member Jack Teixeira was sentenced to 16 years in jail for illegally accessing high secret army plans regarding Russia’s warfare in opposition to Ukraine and leaking them on-line.
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