Amy Jeter followed up on the Sentaro/Omnicell breach, and includes some interesting statistics in her reporting:
Last year, less than 1 percent of 370,000 complaints of identity theft reported that the information was misused for medical purposes, according to the U.S. Federal Trade Commission. In Virginia, 57 out of 6,616 complaints reported such activity, with nine coming from the Hampton Roads area, according to data The Pilot acquired through a Freedom of Information Act request.
In one report, more than a third of medical identity-theft victims surveyed blamed a family member for taking their credentials without their knowledge – but nearly as many said they had shared the credential at some point so that their relative could obtain medical services. Just 6 percent said their information was stolen in a data breach; 7 percent said an employee of a health provider stole it.
Intriguingly, Jeter also reports:
An Omnicell spokesman was asked last month whether the device had been recovered and if anyone had attempted to misuse the compromised health information.
He declined to answer.
Read more on The Virginian-Pilot.