Ca: Medical files of 4,000 Vancouver patients stolen, raising alarms
Susan Lazaruk reports: Thieves who burgled a West Broadway office last month stole the personal medical files of 4,000 Vancouver patients, likely by far the largest privacy breach of medical records in...
View ArticlePremier Healthcare notifying 200,000 patients after laptop with PHI stolen...
Lauren Slavin reports: Premier Healthcare patients are being notified of a possible data breach after a laptop with personal patient information was apparently stolen from the Bloomington office. More...
View ArticleAU: Five people charged for defrauding Medicare of more than $500,000 after...
Martha Azzi reports: Five people have been charged with using fake and stolen medical records to defraud more than $500,000 from Medicare. Patient records illegally taken from a string of medical...
View ArticleFormer Healthcare Employee Indicted for Involvement in Stolen Identity Tax...
Another one of those all-too-infrequent criminal cases for violations of HIPAA, tacked on to the usual charges…. A Montgomery, Alabama resident self-surrendered earlier today after she was indicted...
View ArticleSo you found some records in the street? Now what do you do?
Sometimes people who find documents with personal information don’t know to whom to return them. Other times, they may know, but refuse to return them or stall in returning them. And yet others may...
View ArticleStolen laptop with patient info returned; no evidence ever powered on
Wow. You don’t see this type of thing too often. Premier Healthcare has an important update to their breach notification of March 3 that affected 206,000 patients. From their statement today: Missing...
View ArticleNY: Centers Plan for Healthy Living Notifies Members of Stolen Laptop
March 1, 2016 Subject: Stolen Laptop On January 4, 2016, Centers Plan for Healthy Living learned that on or about January 1, 2016 a laptop was stolen from its corporate offices. It is suspected that...
View ArticleImproper disclosure of research participants’ protected health information...
There’s a follow-up to a breach I first noted on this blog in 2012 when Feinstein Institute for Medical Research issued a press release about a laptop stolen from a programmer’s car. Now HHS has issued...
View ArticleIn: Firm director remanded in data theft case
TNN reports: The directory of a company has been remanded in judicial custody for 14 days in the data theft case. Sunil Verma of M/s GC Associates was produced in a local court and remanded in judicial...
View ArticleJury Awards Calif. Mortgage Co. $25M For Rival’s Data Theft
There’s a follow-up to an insider theft case previously noted on this site. Y. Peter Kang reports: A California state jury on Tuesday awarded $25.1 million in damages to Mount Olympus Mortgage Co.,...
View ArticleUK: Dozens of Newcastle patients’ medical records go missing after van blunder
Keiran Southern reports: Confidential medical records belonging to dozens of North East patients have gone missing from Tyneside hospitals. The documents were taken after being left unsecured in a van...
View ArticleMA: Patient information taken from Northgate Medical Primary Care
David McKay reports that Northgate Medical Primary Care in Springfield, Massachusetts has issued a press release about a HIPAA breach. I haven’t been able to find any copy of it online or on their web...
View ArticleWA: Olympia man suspected of stealing hard drives from federal offices
Amelia Dickson reports: A Thurston County judge has set bail at $10,000 for Nicholas W. Perring, an Olympia man suspected of stealing hard drives containing names and Social Security numbers from a...
View ArticleNM: Northern Navajo Medical Center patient information turns up in NM storage...
AP reports: A former employee at a northwestern New Mexico hospital walked off with information on nearly 7,500 patients, hospital officials said. Documents in cardboard boxes turned up in storage...
View ArticleKatherman Kitts notifies clients whose identity and financial information was...
It’s 2016, and yet we’re still seeing totally and easily avoidable data breaches like this one, reported by Katherman Kitts: On February 25, 2016, hard drives containing backup files for one of the...
View ArticleOptumRx notifying patients after laptop with PHI stolen from vendor’s...
Now what vendor was this? I don’t see anything in recent reports or on HHS’s public breach tool that would identify the vendor. From a notification template by OptumRx: We wanted to make you aware of a...
View ArticleLessons from the Olympus Mortgage vs. Guaranteed Rate Case
Craig Nazarro of Baker Donelson writes about an insider breach case previously covered on this blog: Late last month a jury awarded Mount Olympus Mortgage Company (MOMC) more than $25 million for their...
View ArticleVA physician leaves patient files in his car, and….
March seems to have been a relatively quiet month for the Veterans Administration in terms of breaches reported to Congress. The only incident of note involved the Seattle VA. According to their...
View ArticleAlabama CVS’ patient information at risk after laptop stolen
Kelly Poe reports: A laptop that contained prescription and patient information on customers of a CVS Pharmacy in Calera has been stolen. CVS learned on March 22 that the password-protected laptop had...
View Article‘Stolen’ medical records from Prime Medical clinic found flying around...
Julia Medew reports: Medical files belonging to at least a dozen patients have allegedly been stolen from a Melbourne GP clinic and dumped in a park, exposing people’s most intimate personal history....
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