Rex Mundi is back again. After hacking Synergie and dumping data from Temporis in January, the hackers, who have made a business of hacking for profit, have announced that they have now hacked a diagnostic laboratory in France, Labio. And once again, they announced the hack on Twitter: Labio.fr hacked last week. 100’s of blood test results in our possession….
Category: Health Data
WI: Ex-VA worker charged with stealing identities from hospital, mail from neighbors
Ed Treleven reports: A former Veterans Hospital lab worker used information stolen from VA records, from mail stolen from her neighbors and information purchased on the Internet to obtain credit cards and access other people’s checking accounts, according to criminal charges filed this week. Elizabeth Feng, 23, of Madison, was charged Thursday with 17 counts…
Vidant Health leaking PHI since at least September – security firm (updated)
SLC Security posted this yesterday: Second Note: Vidant Health – Greenville, NC Just a quick update that we are still seeing issues with Vidant Health which we previous reported. On October 1, 2014, SLC Security had posted: DISCLOSURE: Vidant Medical Center (www.vidanthealth.com) Leaking PHI to include locations, patient names, diagnosis, age, birthdates and identifying features such…
Miami Resident Sentenced In Identity Theft Tax Fraud Scheme Involving Medical Patients’ Personal Identifying Information
There’s a follow-up to a breach previously reported on PHIprivacy.net. The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Florida reports that Kenol Augustin, 36, was sentenced to 16 months in prison, followed by two years of supervised release, and was ordered to pay joint and several restitution of $57,000, for his role in the tax refund…
OR: Mosaic Medical notifies patients of breach
Mosaic Medical is notifying patients of a breach after an office burglary, even though they have no evidence anything was actually stolen. Here is their statement, as posted by KTVZ: On the morning of Thursday, January 15, 2015 we discovered that an overnight break-in had occurred at the Health Information Technology (HIT) department. At the time…
San Francisco General Hospital notifies 2,500 patients that doctor removed copies of their records from the hospital
I had noted this breach on PHIprivacy.net, but since there’s an update today, I’ll repeat the original information here. On March 6, Erin Allday reported that a former UCSF doctor who was employed at San Francisco General Hospital from 2005 to 2013 had wrongfully removed copies of patient records from the medical center. Allday reported:…