From NY Post:
A receptionist at a Manhattan dental office stole confidential information from hundreds of patient’s and teamed up with a former Apple employee to open fraudulent credit lines and buy hundreds of thousands in Apple gift cards,…
District Attorney Cy Vance. “We see in case after case how all it takes is single insider at a company – in this instance, allegedly, a receptionist in a dentists’ office – to set an identity theft ring in motion,..
via Dentist receptionist stole patient info to buy $700K in Apple gift cards | New York Post.
She was part of a gang that included crooked Apple employees. The article does not say but I believe it is possible that the dentist may be liable for a data breach under HIPAA rules.