Yet another Florida medical facility is notifying patients that their information was compromised by an insider who provided their details to others for a tax refund fraud scheme.
According to multiple media sources, the University of Florida is notifying 14,339 patients of the UF&Shands Family Medicine at Main practice that they may have become victims of ID theft. UF learned that an employee may have been acquiring and providing patients’ insurance information, including names, addresses, dates of birth and Social Security numbers, to a third party.
The breach was disclosed in a press release today, and may impact anyone who was a patient between March 2009 and October 2012. UF was informed of the breach by law enforcement on October 25, but disclosure to patients was delayed at the request of law enforcement so as not to interfere with the criminal investigation.