Esteban Parra reports: A Wilmington psychiatrist – a former Delaware Medical Board officer – has been indicted on charges he submitted more than $100,000 in insurance claims over a two-year period for visits that did not occur. To facilitate this fraud, Dr. Karl McIntosh used his patients’ personal identifying information without their consent, according to the state Department…
Category: Health Data
UK: Hundreds of sensitive council documents found in London estate
People in the U.K. may wish to make excuses for councils having breaches – e.g., “It’s just a few retired folks who mean well,” but I am fed up with the breaches of sensitive information that councils are responsible for. Consider this report today from the BBC: Hundreds of sensitive documents have been found in…
Nuance says majority of clients back online after Petya cyberattack
As Nuance continues to attempt to restore services following the Petya attack in June, it’s interesting to note their conclusion that this was not a reportable breach under HIPAA.
Rogue insiders can go undetected for a long time….
So how are you determining if your Business Associate or vendor has a rogue employee who may be stealing or misusing your patients’ protected health information? A notification from Anthem regarding an incident that affected more than 18,000 Medicare members in 21 states is a timely reminder that out of sight cannot mean out of mind…
Plastic Surgery Associates of South Dakota notifies 10,200 after ransomware attack
From their web site, the practice’s notification. Note that some of the crucial data that might have enabled them to justify no need for notifications was lost/corrupted during the clean-up from the ransomware. Based on reports I’ve read over the past year, losing data during clean-up is not that rare, which should serve as a…
Health data breaches in 2017: The terrible, horrible, no good, very bad year? Join us for webinar!
By now, you’ve probably read at least a few reports on mid-year figures for breaches that suggest that 2017 is worse than 2016. In collaboration with Protenus, Inc., DataBreaches.net has worked up some mid-year figures for U.S. breaches involving health/medical data. Join me and Robert Lord of Protenus on Wednesday, August 2 at 1 pm,…