Blue Cross Blue Shield of Illinois (BCBS) uses a vendor, Dane Street, to provide peer to peer reviews of insurance claims that are denied. On May 10, Dane Street notified BCBS that on April 9, law enforcement had notified them that a doctor who had been providing peer to peer reviews for them was not…
Month: June 2018
Facebook bug set 14 million users’ sharing settings to public
Heather Kelly reports: For a period of four days in May, about 14 million Facebook users around the world had their default sharing setting for all new posts set to public, the company revealed Thursday. The bug, which affected those users from May 18 to May 22, occurred while Facebook was testing a new feature….
Atlanta officials reveal worsening effects of cyber attack
Reuter reports that the March 22 ransomware attack on Atlanta was even worse than they had let on. More than a third of the 424 software programs used by the city have been thrown offline or partially disabled in the incident, Atlanta Information Management head Daphne Rackley said. Nearly 30 percent of the affected applications…
The Supreme Court Will Rule on Data Breach Class Arbitration Suit
Jason C. Gavejian and Maya Atrakchi of Jackson Lewis write: The U.S. Supreme Court recently granted a petition for review of a data breach lawsuit addressing the issue of whether parties can pursue a class arbitration when the language in the arbitration agreement does not explicitly allow for such, Lamps Plus, Inc. v. Varela , No. 17-988,…
UK: Patient information stolen from Dorset HealthCare employee’s car
Josh Wright reports: The loss of medical information relating to as many as 50 patients has sparked fears about the security of people’s private records. Personal details belonging to between 11 and 50 patients of the trust which were kept on a notepad were stolen along with a laptop belonging to a Poole-based employee of…
Hair Free Forever notifies clients/patients that a former employee is misusing their information to recruit patients for another practice
Hair Free Forever (HFF) appears to have suffered an insider-wrongdoing breach involving a now-former employee using patient information to solicit patients for another business. HFF’s notification letter suggests they are covered by HIPAA. The number of patients affected by the breach is not disclosed in the template notification letter submitted to the state attorney general’s office,…