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Author: Dissent

Walgreens still under investigation by OCR

Posted on August 7, 2010 by Dissent

Dom Nicastro of HealthLeaders Media reports: The Office for Civil Rights (OCR) confirmed this week its investigation into the nation’s largest drugstore chain, Walgreens, based on the same television media reports that led to million-dollar settlements with CVS and Rite Aid for potential HIPAA violations. The investigation stems from a 2006 series of articles by…

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Oakwood Hospital Employee Fired for Facebook Posting

Posted on August 7, 2010 by Dissent

Another employee fired for allegedly violating HIPAA by a posting on Facebook. Ronnie Dahl reports: … Like so many others, James was emotional following the shooting death of Taylor Police Corporal Matthew Edwards. She worked for the hospital organization that treated the police officer and the shooting suspect, Tyress Mathews. One night, while at home,…

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Fort Worth medical clinic spends $15,000 notifying patients of theft

Posted on August 7, 2010 by Dissent

Jan Jarvis reports: In June, employees at a Fort Worth allergy clinic discovered that the office door had been kicked in and four computers containing patients’ personal information including Social Security numbers and birth dates had been stolen. This week Fort Worth Allergy and Asthma Associates spent $15,000 mailing letters notifying the clinic’s 25,000 patients…

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Terry Childs gets four year sentence

Posted on August 7, 2010 by Dissent

Robert McMillan reports: A City of San Francisco administrator who refused to hand over administrative passwords to the city’s network was sentenced to four years in state prison Friday. Terry Childs was convicted in April of violating California’s hacking laws after he refused to hand over administrative control to the city’s FiberWAN network back in…

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Fort Worth medical clinic spends $15,000 notifying patients of theft

Posted on August 7, 2010 by Dissent

Jan Jarvis reports: In June, employees at a Fort Worth allergy clinic discovered that the office door had been kicked in and four computers containing patients’ personal information including Social Security numbers and birth dates had been stolen. This week Fort Worth Allergy and Asthma Associates spent $15,000 mailing letters notifying the clinic’s 25,000 patients…

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RBS WorldPay hacker extradicted to Atlanta

Posted on August 6, 2010 by Dissent

The U.S. Attorney’s Office for Northern Georgia issued a press release today announcing the extradition of Sergei Tsurikov, one of the alleged leaders of the Eastern European cybercrime group that hacked into RBS WorldPay in Atlanta in 2008. Tsurikov had been indicted in November 2009 on federal charges of conspiracy to commit wire fraud, wire…

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