The Pierce County Herald reports: River Falls Medical Clinic says it has notified about 2,400 clients of a breach of unsecured personal information. The breach occurred after clinic officials reported stolen equipment to the River Falls Police in the summer of 2012. Police investigated and found the stolen equipment, as well as paper documents containing…
Month: February 2013
UK: Big brother to log your drinking habits and waist size as GPs are forced to hand over confidential records
Jack Doyle reports: GPs are to be forced to hand over confidential records on all their patients’ drinking habits, waist sizes and illnesses. The files will be stored in a giant information bank that privacy campaigners say represents the ‘biggest data grab in NHS history’. They warned the move would end patient confidentiality and hand…
50,000 Accounts leaked from Pympy.com
A Spanish language based social network style provider Pympy.com has been hacked and over 50,000 accounts have been leaked The attack was announce by hacker @AnonVoldemort on twitter just a short time ago. > Pympy Resources for social networks, forums, Hi5, Facebook, Myspace, twitter +70.000 Users DATA-DUMP @cyber_war_news goo.gl/hEcl9 — Voldem0rt (@AnonVoldemort) February 1, 2013 The leaked…
Insurance company need not defend accountant who lost sensitive client information
Having homeowner’s insurance is a good idea, but don’t count on it to protect you if your clients’ data is stolen from your property. Stephen E Wieker and Liisa M. Thomas and Winston & Strawn LLP write: The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh recently ruled that Nationwide Insurance Co. has no duty to defend or…
Identity theft charges prompts Tallahassee Memorial HealthCare to tighten policies
Jennifer Portman reports on yet another refund fraud ring involving a hospital employee as the source of personal information: Tallahassee Memorial HealthCare officials modified policies to help better protect the privacy of patients’ personal information and offered identity protection services to more than 100 patients after learning last year that a hospital employee was suspected…
Eleventh Circuit ruling on how to count ID theft "victims" for purposes of sentencing guidelines
In April 2011, I blogged about two medical office assistants who had been charged criminally under HIPAA for stealing patient information and providing it to others for an ID theft/fraud ring. Today, I learned from a post by Al Saikali on the Data Security Law Journal that Erica Hall had appealed her sentence to the…