and a tearful diatribe on video where she blamed her husband. nevertheless, through her attorney, she said she is satisfied with today s plea agreement. my client s position is he is a great politician. he s a great sheriff. and also, the sole source of income for her right now. so she was was hopeful that they could work a deal out that would do this that wouldn t result in any more personal carnage to any of the many, many, many people that have been affected by this. reporter: mirkarimi is scheduled to be formally sentenced next monday march 19. after that he says, he plans to continue in his elected position. you will remain sheriff, you have made that clear? yes. i mean, that s my intention, absolutely. the department s been going strong. the plea that i shall take on the charge doesn t inhibit me legally, constitutionally, from being sheriff. reporter: still, mayor ed lee is trying to figure out whether to begin an effort to boot mirkarimi out of office. he sa
keep an eye on your bank account. thank you, kiet do. thousands of hospital patients names and debts posted online. it s supposed to be private information but ann notarangelo shows us how an east bay man found it with a few mouse clicks. reporter: lee white came across a file that said health services write-off reports. he clicked on it. a whole long list of patients who contra costa health services money. reporter: he found the names of thousands of people how much they owe and collectively they owe more than $9 million. it was frightfully easy to obtain. reporter: it appears this documents was part of a presentation to the contra costa county board of supervisors in 2009 or 2010. the county health department says it did not release this information and says it came from the office of debt collection. a department that was disbanded within the last year. one possible explanation from the county? that this information was used to document debt forgiveness and t
these stores. now, lucky says it was doing maintenance on debit and credit card readers in the self- checkout lanes and discovered that they had been tampered with at 19 bay area stores. the company did not say exactly what the crooks did with the information. but lucky is warning customers to kept a close eye on their accounts nonetheless. the card readers are attractive targets for thieves because they can store your card information and p.i.n. for several days. a crook can swap out the reader, take the device home and download the data. lucky s parent company save mart says it replaced the card readers in question at the 19 affected stores and beefed up security in all 234 lucky stores. still customers we talked to are more nervous. does this make you more nervous about using the checkout lanes? yes. even though it s speedy i d rather be safer than sorry. i plan on never using one ever again, ever. reporter: lucky said, we sincerely regret any inconvenience or conce