Back in October 2010, I noted the case of the Orange Regional Medical Center. They had suffered a data security breach in 2005, but never knew they had been breached until the U.S. Attorney’s Office mentioned their name in the context of a criminal Medicare fraud ring that operated between 2006 and 2010. Many doctors had…
Month: October 2012
Wow.
Seen on the home page of the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Alabama: The linked notice states: The United States Attorney’s Office is currently prosecuting cases which allege, among other things, theft of personal identifying information and the use of that personal identifying information to prepare fraudulent tax returns. These alleged thefts…
Montgomery woman pleads guilty in federal court to stealing the identities of Troy Hospital patients
A follow-up on a previously reported insider breach at Troy Regional. Erin Edgemon reports: Angeline Austin, 41, pled guilty to one count of conspiring to defraud the government regarding claims, of count of fraud in connection with identification documents, a count of fraud in connection with computers, and of aggravated identity theft, U.S. District Attorney for…
SC: 3.6 million Social Security numbers stolen from state Department of Revenue (update 1)
Ouch. Tim Smith reports: A foreign hacker stole a vast database of the South Carolina Department of Revenue and investigators told GreenvilleOnline.com that 387,000 credit card numbers and 3.6 million Social Security numbers have been exposed. Read more on Greenville News. Update 1: The paper also has a later article on the review of state agencies’…
China adopts mental health law, protecting rights
China has a new mental health law, that in many respects, is similar to our laws here. You can read about their new law and privacy protections on China Daily.
Class Actions Adding to the Cost of Data Breaches
Sharon R. Klein and Jeffrey L. Vagle of Pepper Hamilton LLP review what’s going in the federal circuits when it comes to getting potential class action lawsuits over data breaches or privacy breaches dismissed. You can read their article on JD Supra. I’ll take a wild guess and hypothesize that they’re defendants’ lawyers and not…