This is a somewhat bizarre – and disturbing – breach involving medical records and human remains. Police have launched an investigation after an abandoned autopsy laboratory containing mummified baby remains was discovered in a park. The gruesome facility in Tobolsk, which may have been used as recently three years ago, was stumbled across by a…
Category: Health Data
OK: Saint Francis Hospital Gift Shop Acts to Block Payment Card Security Incident
Saint Francis Health System (“Saint Francis”) takes seriously the privacy and confidentiality of the personal information provided to it by visitors to the Saint Francis Hospital gift shop. Regrettably, this notice is about an incident involving some of that information. On March 20, 2015, Saint Francis discovered that an unauthorized person remotely installed malware on the…
Healthcare Nonprofit Sues Whistleblowers for Confidentiality Breach
Brittany Malooly reports: A nationwide AIDS healthcare provider and several of its former employees are locked in a legal battle over who took more advantage of the patients. The former employees claim that the AIDS Healthcare Foundation used patients to defraud Medicaid and Medicare, while AHF claims its employees outed confidential patient information to the…
AR: Medical assistant pleads guilty to aggravated identity theft
Christopher R. Thyer, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas, announced Wednesday that Mesha White, age 34, of Little Rock, appeared before United States District Court Judge Susan Webber Wright on June 3, 2015, and pled guilty to an indictment charging her with aggravated identity theft. In April 2014, a federal grand jury returned…
CA: Fred Finch Youth Center Notifies Clients Of Potential Breach Of Personal Health Information
Fred Finch Youth Center (FFYC) is in the process of notifying 6,871 current and former clients and program participants of a potential breach of Protected Health Information (PHI), after discovering a break-in had occurred at one of FFYC’s San Diego County locations on the weekend of April 4th, 2015. When discovered on Monday, April 6, police determined that burglars…
China’s Hack of U.S. Data Tied to Health-Care Record Thefts
Michael A Riley and John Walcott report: The disclosure by U.S. officials that Chinese hackers stole records of as many as 4 million government workers is now being linked to the thefts of personal information from health-care companies. Forensic evidence indicates that the group of hackers responsible for the U.S. government breach announced Thursday likely…