Courthouse News Service reports that a class action claim has been filed against insurance giant Aetna as a result of the recent security breach in which hackers gained access to personal information about 450,000 employees, former employees and potential employees. At the time, Aetna stated that the incident exposed the SSN of approximately 65,000 people….
Category: Health Data
Crawford & Company employee pleads guilty to stealing claimants’ personal information
Last week, I posted a copy of a press release from the US Attorney’s Office in Maryland stating that Shanell Angelia Bowser had pleaded guilty to stealing personally identifying information of insurance claimants submitted to her employer, described as an unnamed medical insurance adjuster. The release also mentioned that Bowser and/or her co-schemers had also…
UK: Medical records of 7,000 patients stolen in GP break-in
Alison Anderson reports: A computer databank with personal information of thousands of patients is missing after a break-in at a doctors’ surgery. The hard drive and computer backup tapes containing names, details of illnesses, medical histories and referral letters of more than 7,000 patients in Hackney were taken in a break-in at Clapton’s Nightingale Practice….
MD: Insurance company clerk admits to identity theft and bank fraud scheme
Baltimore Woman and Co-Schemers Fraudulently Obtained At Least $174,000 in Cash and Merchandise from 89 Individual Victims in a Three Year Period Baltimore, Maryland – Shanell Angelia Bowser, age 30, of Baltimore pleaded guilty today to stealing personal identifying information of insurance claimants from her employer to fraudulently obtain credit used to purchase merchandise and…
(Update) UK: Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust breaches the Data Protection Act
This is a follow-up to the incident previously reported here. The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has found Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust in breach of the Data Protection Act after the Trust reported a desktop computer containing sensitive personal information relating to around 3,500 patients was stolen. Although the computer was password protected, it was…
OIS Commentary: And some walls will come tumbling down
One of yesterday’s posts on PHIprivacy.net reports a data breach involving Kelsey-Seybold Clinic that has not been reported in the mainstream media. I contacted Kelsey-Seybold after a site visitor alerted me to the breach. The report is frustratingly short on details, though, because Kelsey-Seybold could — and did — simply ignore questions it did not…