Sam Levin reports: In February, the Berkeley Health Center, a clinic that provided medical services to low-income patients, closed down in the wake of serious financial troubles, including allegations that it had mismanaged public funds. A federal judge forced the clinic out of its site at 2908 Ellsworth Street in South Berkeley after the nonprofit healthcare…
Category: Health Data
PA: Last year’s UPMC data breach affecting some employees’ tax returns
Bofta Yimam reports that a breach reported in 2014 that resulted in over 800 cases of tax refund fraud for University of Pittsburgh Medical Center employees may still be impacting employees this year: If you work for the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, you may have to wait for your tax refund because of the…
IL: Trial in doubt for medical ID theft case
Way back when, I had written myself a note about a case in which five Indiana residents had been indicted on charges that related to an ID fraud conspiracy involving theft of patient information. According to the press release in December 2013 from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Indiana, the five individuals were indicted November…
Camp for children with serious diseases notifies campers and volunteers of potential breach
The Painted Turtle is a non-profit organization in California that operates a camp for children with life-threatening diseases and their families, and does so each year, free of charge to the families. As part of their process, prospective campers and their families, as well as volunteers, submit an online application. For campers and their families,…
AL: State Trial Underway for Flowers Hospital Identity Thief
There’s a follow-up to a case involving theft of Flowers Hospital patient data by an employee for tax refund fraud. The data theft was first disclosed in April 2014, and reportedly occurred between June, 2013 and February, 2014. Within weeks, a potential class action lawsuit was filed. Over the summer, the hospital moved to dismiss for…
A breach, a complaint and how the NZ Privacy Commissioner helped
From the job-well-done dept.: New Zealand’s Privacy Commissioner, John Edwards, writes: Late last year, one of my senior investigating officers came to me with a file she’d been working on for quite a while. She was convinced the facts supported a finding of an “interference with privacy”, that is, a breach of the privacy principles,…