MacKeeper Security Research Center reports that PIP Printing and Marketing Services, a franchise of Franchise Services in California, was leaking data: The majority of 400+ GB server is dedicated to design files and images relating to the printing business. The most sensitive information is contained within the “Outlook archives” and “Scans” folders. These contain around…
Category: Health Data
Children’s Medical Center of Dallas pays $3.2m penalty for multiple violations of Security Rule
Children’s Medical Center of Dallas, part of Children’s Health nationwide network, has paid HHS $3.2 million to settle charges stemming from multiple breaches involving ePHI and failure to comply with the Security Rule, despite notice of their shortcomings. Here’s HHS’s press release with a link to their determination: The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office for…
US charges 104 in Florida in latest ID theft-fraud roundup
AP reports: Federal authorities have charged 104 people with numerous identity theft and fraud offenses in the latest South Florida crackdown on a rampant problem involving tens of thousands of stolen personal identities. […] In one of the largest cases, an employee at Miami’s Jackson Health System is accused of stealing identities from 24,000 people…
Doctor email breached patient privacy: Eastern Health says 122 patients involved
CBC News reports: Eastern Health and Memorial University’s Faculty of Medicine are advising of a privacy breach Monday after a doctor emailed researchers “tuberculosis-related health information” involving 122 patients. According to the health authority, the physician — who was not named — shared the information with other researchers as a part of a grant application for…
Doxxing Raises the Stakes of Ransomware for Healthcare Providers
Jack Danahy of Barkly writes, in part: In a very short time, ransomware has grown from a known but infrequent cyber attack to a profitable and widespread epidemic. Attacks are increasing in frequency and severity. On average, a new business is attacked every 40 seconds, and a disproportionately high number of victims are healthcare providers….
NY: Three Individuals Plead Guilty in $55 Million Health Care Fraud Scheme at Two Brooklyn Medical Clinics
As I’ve occasionally noted in the past in discussing statistics on medical identity theft, sometimes patients knowingly participate in the crime, usually by lending friends or family members their health insurance information so that others can seek care. Despite the government or other researchers’ justifications, I have argued that we shouldn’t consider such instances cases…