It’s not that often that we find out about extortion attempts related to data breaches, so when we do, I try to follow up on them. Here’s a follow-up to an extortion attempt involving Xavier University that I previously covered on DataBreaches.net. It was not originally covered here because until now, there was no indication…
Category: Health Data
WA: Medical clerk who stole patient IDs gets 5 years
Carol M. Ostrom reports: A medical-office billing clerk who stole patient information and prescription pads to get thousands of dollars’ worth of narcotic prescription drugs to sell was sentenced to five years in prison by a federal court judge Thursday. For the scam, Alyce Burrell, 28, of Seattle, often brought along her two children when…
UK: Patient details stolen from reception desk at hospital
Adam Morris reports: The personal details of more than 100 patients were stolen from accident and emergency at the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary, it has emerged. The documents contained personal details of 106 patients, including names, addresses, GP contacts and dates of birth, and were understood to have been lifted from a reception desk. Some files…
Veriphyr Survey Finds More Than 70 Percent of Healthcare Providers Suffered Privacy Breach in Past 12 Months
Saw this press release today and thought it worth mentioning here for its statistics: Veriphyr, a leading provider of Identity and Access Intelligence, today announced the results of new survey on Protected Health Information (PHI) privacy breaches. According to the findings, more than 70 percent of the organizations in the study have suffered one or…
PA: 2 charged in $290,000 identity theft scheme (updated)
Michael Hinkelman reports: Two Philadelphia men, including an employee of a health insurance company, were charged today with stealing the identities of 86 people in a scheme that netted them nearly $290,000, federal authorities said. An indictment alleges that Kenneth C. Osbourne, Jr., 35, used his position as a customer service representative at AmeriHealth Administrators,…
Computer breach exposes personal records of Living Healthy Clinic patients
The names and other confidential information of about 3,000 clients of the Living Healthy Clinic were exposed as a result of a computer security breach In July. The clinic, operated by the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh College of Nursing provides health services for uninsured Winnebago County residents. The university on Friday said an investigation determined that…