Algernon D’Ammassa reports: A licensed professional clinical counselor based in Las Cruces was indicted Friday on multiple counts of Medicaid fraud, identity theft and other charges. The grand jury indictment, filed in New Mexico’s Third District Court, accuses Cathy Chidester of Drop In Counseling of submitting fraudulent Medicaid claims, including one count of Medicaid fraud…
Category: Health Data
Zocdoc says ‘programming errors’ exposed access to patients’ data
Zack Whittaker reports: Zocdoc says it has fixed a bug that allowed current and former staff at doctor’s offices and dental practices to access patient data because their user accounts weren’t properly decommissioned. The New York-based company revealed the issue in a letter to the California attorney general’s office, which requires companies with more than 500 residents…
OK: Harper County Community Hospital targeted with ransomware
Kaylee Douglas reports that Harper County Community Hospital is now disclosing that it experienced a ransomware attack on March 24. Authorities say the protected health information that may have been compromised could include any of the following: first and last name, date of birth, home address, patient account number, diagnosis, social security number and health insurance…
Riagg files of thousands of patients open and exposed in a basement
The this post uses machine translation of a report in Dutch. It concerns the discovery of patient files on CDs found unsecured in the basement of a building that, until 2015, was a former mental health institution — the Riagg Rijnmond Foundation. Rutger de QuayRik Wassens report that the young man who found the files…
Email breach at Beech Acres resulted in private client information being obtained
Brook Endale reports that Beech Acres Parenting Center discovered employee email accounts with personal and sensitive nformation had been hacked and accessed between Dec. 29 and March 18. The information in the emails included: clients’ names, dates of birth and client account numbers. Treatment or clinical information such as dates of service and provider names were…
NY: EMT posted patient’s confidential info from ambulance, alleges lawsuit
The Staten Island Advance reports: Thanksgiving 2019 is a day one Stapleton resident will never forget. But for all the wrong reasons. An emergency medical technician posted Jermaine Williams’ confidential medical information and cell-phone number online that night without his consent, a lawsuit alleges. And others saw it, William’s lawyer said. At the time, Williams…