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Medical Insurance Fraud: Doctors’ identity info for sale on dark web marketplace

Posted on May 16, 2019 by Dissent

There have been numerous estimates over the years about how much a patient’s information sells for on dark web marketplaces.  But what about a doctor’s information? If you had the necessary documentation on a physician who could bill electronically for their services, how much could you make by sending fraudulent bills to Medicare or insurers?…

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Australians’ Medicare details illegally sold on darknet – two years after breach exposed

Posted on May 15, 2019 by Dissent

Paul Karp reports: Australians’ Medicare details are still being illegally offered for sale on the darknet, almost two years after Guardian Australia revealed the serious privacy breach. Screenshots of the Empire Market, provided to Guardian Australia, show the vendor Medicare Machine has rebranded as Medicare Madness, offering Medicare details for $US21. Read more on Guardian…

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Seven months after learning of a breach, UCSD still has not notified HIV research participants whose privacy was breached

Posted on May 15, 2019 by Dissent

Brad Racino and Jill Castellano report on what sounds like either willful or negligent handling of highly sensitive information of research participants bu a non-profit participating in some university-funded research.  In either event, the university was notified of a breach in October and STILL hasn’t notified the research participants with HIV whose data was available…

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Equitas Health notifies 569 members after discovering two employee email accounts had been compromised

Posted on May 14, 2019 by Dissent

Equitas Health, Inc. (“Equitas Health”) learned that it was the victim of a data incident and is notifying individuals whose information may have been affected.  On January 8, 2019, Equitas Health became aware of unusual activity within an employee’s email account.  Equitas Health conducted an internal investigation which revealed that an unauthorized individual had access…

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Oregon Health Authority provides early notification to Oregon State Hospital patients of a phishing incident

Posted on May 13, 2019 by Dissent

I realize that some will fault the entity for making early notification before they have all the facts, but my hat is off to the Oregon Health Authority (OHA).  On May 6, they suffered – and quickly stopped – a successful spear-phishing attack that gave the attacker access to one employee’s mail account. That account…

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Numbers from the OS, Inc. breach dribble in…

Posted on May 13, 2019 by Dissent

OS, Inc. provides revenue management (billing) services to covered entities. I recently reported on a phishing-related breach they experienced in 2018 that was first disclosed this month. As I noted in that post, their notification specifically mentioned a number of their affected clients. Their disclosure did not, however, provide a total number of patients affected,…

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