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$115M Anthem Data Breach Deal Gets Final Nod

Posted on August 17, 2018 by Dissent

Kevin Stawicki reports: A California federal judge on Thursday gave final approval to a $115 million deal that ends claims Anthem Inc. put 79 million consumers’ personal information at risk in a 2015 data breach, casting aside calls for the settlement to go even further to punish the nation’s second-largest health insurer. You can read…

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Augusta University Health breach risks health, personal information of 417,000

Posted on August 16, 2018 by Dissent

Matt Kempner reports on a developing story: A breach of email accounts at Augusta University Health may have exposed sensitive  health and personal information of about 417,000 people, including patients around the state, the university announced Thursday. Those at risk are primarily patients of Augusta University Health, including Augusta University Medical Center (which is the…

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Ca: Flatlands man says health records accessed without authorization

Posted on August 16, 2018 by Dissent

Kevin White reports: A man from the Restigouche region says people should be able to expect privacy when it comes to their health records, even if they live in a small town where everyone seems to know everything about everyone. This after Mark Firth of Flatlands says an employee at the Campbellton Regional Hospital accessed…

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WI: Adams County clerk suspected in connection with data breach affecting more than 250,000

Posted on August 15, 2018 by Dissent

Well, I said that the more I learned about it, a breach affecting more than 250,000 Adams County residents sounded like a bad one. Its “badness” was just confirmed, it seems. WKOW reports: Adams County officials are trying to remove the county clerk from office, after she’s suspected of being connected with a data breach. According to our Madison…

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NSW Health privacy breach: ‘horrified’ families waiting for answers about patient files found in derelict building

Posted on August 15, 2018 by Dissent

Following up on their earlier reporting, Ange McCormack of Triple j Hack reports that documents left improperly at the Garrawarra center for the aged remain on the floor while “safety procedures around potential asbestos contamination of the site is underway.” Take a look at the scene there: And pictures from other rooms, shown in their…

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Convicted of health care fraud, de-licensed physician just steals another doctor’s identity….

Posted on August 13, 2018 by Dissent

In June, I posted an item about how BCBS of Illinois was notifying people after a vendor informed them that law enforcement had alerted them that a vendor’s employee was not a licensed physician but an identity thief. That story did not seem to get a lot of press attention, but subsequent revelations named the physician…

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