Hospice of Alamance Caswell and LifePath Home Health notified approximately 5,370 current and past patients, or their next of kin, about a breach of unsecured personal patient protected health information after an incident occurred at their office. During the early morning hours of February 24, 2013, there was a break-in at their main office building…
Month: April 2013
Hackers got personal info from state computers
I’m having one of those “WTH???” moments. Read this report from Associated Press: Some state employees and vendors who do business with Alabama are being notified that their personal information was accessed when hackers infiltrated a state computer system. The state Department of Homeland Security announced today that it was making the notifications, but wouldn’t…
Montfort Hospital says missing USB key with patient info has been found
The missing USB key with information on 25,000 patients at Montfort Hospital was found on March 27, and turned in to the hospital by the individual who found it. Now what happens with the planned lawsuit?
ID theft bill moving through Fla. legislature
As I’ve been reporting for a while now, Florida is an absolute hotbed of ID theft for tax refund fraud schemes. Yet state-level prosecutors are hampered by a law that requires them to prove intent to use/misuse information if someone is found in possession of others’ identity information. Of course, the federal prosecutors are not…
UK: Not to be outdone in lax security, Royal Oldham Hospital also has a breach involving patient records
Patients at Royal Bolton Hospital aren’t the only U.K. patients to recently have their confidential information wind up in a street. Matt Mears of CapitalFM reports that information on 16 pediatric patients at Royal Oldham Hospital was found more than 40 miles away in Liverpool. C’mon, folks, get it together. This type of lax security…
Details in Statesboro ID Theft Ring Unfold
Meredith Ley of WSAV reports that 23 people, mostly from Georgia, are facing charges in connection with ID theft and tax refund fraud scheme. Authorities with the FBI, Statesboro Police and the IRS believe those involved took names, birthdays, and social security numbers from medical records and used them to submit phony tax returns. U.S….