Dawn reports: A case has been registered against an employee of the Quaid-i-Azam Hospital for allegedly stealing data from the CT scan machine and according to a supreme court lawyer, the case might be the first of its kind in the country. Iftikhar Ali, the chief security officer at the hospital, who is the complainant…
Month: August 2016
In two cases, north Miami residents plead guilty to possessing 2,875 and 225 stolen identities
This post includes two cases out of the Southern District of Florida, a hotbed for identity theft. Aug. 19 – A North Miami resident pled guilty to possessing 2,875 stolen identities. Camelin Junior Desrosiers, 28, pled guilty to one count of possession of fifteen or more unauthorized access devices, in violation of Title 18, United States Code,…
Pasadena Doctor Sentenced to 4 Years in Prison for Falsely Certifying Patients Were Terminally Ill as Part of Healthcare Fraud Scheme
One of the fears with medical identity theft is that a patient’s records could be corrupted in ways that could affect their care. In the case described below, the patients’ identity and insurance info wasn’t stolen, but it was misused to support a fraud scheme, and as part of the scheme, patients records were altered…
News anchor’s mother still fights to sue over prying
If you’re relatively new to medical privacy breach cases, you may not know about a 2008 case involving insider snooping concerning the care and death of news anchor, Anne Pressly. You can find previous coverage of the breach and case linked from here, but the short version is that the three being sued have previously pleaded guilty to misdemeanor…
Cost of a Breach: Forensics and Notification
Protenus, who provide software to monitor, detect, and reduce insider mis-steps such as snooping and other egregious wrongdoing, has been writing a series of posts on the cost of a breach. In this week’s installment, they looked at the costs of forensics and notification. Considering I’ve recently been blogging about entities that don’t have insurance for breaches, some…
TW: Defense university computers hacked, ‘information secure’
The China Post reports: The National Defense University (NDU) Saturday confirmed that its computer system had been hacked in July but said that no classified information had been stolen. Only ordinary academic research materials had been stolen, NDU said. Read more on The China Post.