The Connecticut Attorney General, Richard Blumenthal, has issued a statement about his intensified concerns about the Health Net breach: Attorney General Richard Blumenthal said he is deeply troubled by an investigative report on the Health Net security breach that acknowledges a missing disk drive containing private financial and health information on hundreds of thousands of…
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Security Breach at MedSolutions
Steve Keene reports: The NCMS [North Carolina Medical Society] received information today that a significant security breach occurred involving the MedSolutions website. MedSolutions is the vendor for NC Medicaid that administers the high-tech diagnostic imaging pre-authorization program. For a period of time that has not been clearly defined the name, address, email, and taxpayer ID…
Two Data Security Breaches Give State Attorneys General a Chance to Exercise Their New HIPAA Powers
In a sign that state attorneys general may be flexing the HIPAA enforcement muscle granted by the HITECH Act provisions in the Recovery Act, the Connecticut and Arizona attorneys general are investigating health plans that recently experienced data breaches that they failed to disclose for several months. Typically, state attorneys general prosecute only violations of…
Update: St Albans laptop saga ‘gets worse and worse’
Alexandra Barham reports: Sensitive data for a further 1,000 people was stored on a laptop thought to have been stolen from St Albans District Council, it has been revealed. A review of data stored on the council’s missing electoral services computer revealed a file containing the confidential details of an additional 1,000 people, kept to…
Another celebrity hospital leak?
I expected that it would only be a matter of time before details of golfer Tiger Woods’ care at Health Central Hospital would begin to leak, and today’s news providing the alias under which he was admitted plus additional confidential patient details will necessarily require an investigation. Celebrity website TMZ attributes some of the details…
MS: More Social Security Numbers On-Line
Scott Noll reports: More social security numbers could be at-risk. This time, it’s desoto county homeowners finding their personal information on-line. Chancery Court Clerk Sluggo Davis admits, he’s not thrilled with what his office puts on-line. “I would not want mine out there,” Davis said about his social security number. From regular residents, to a…