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FL: Employee of unnamed community health care provider indicted for stealing 9,000 patients’ info

Posted on April 9, 2015 by Dissent

And yet another insider breach in the healthcare sector results in criminal prosecution. The entity is not named in the press release and the case is not yet up on PACER:   United States v. Yvenante Achille, Case. No. 15-20229-CR-Lenard In April 3, 2015, defendant Yvenante Achille, 30, of Miami, was charged by indictment for her participation…

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FL: Former Aventura Hospital employee charged criminally in ID theft scheme

Posted on April 9, 2015 by Dissent

Today, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Florida revealed a prosecution stemming from an insider breach impacting Aventura Hospital patients, although I’m not confident I can figure out which Aventura Hospital breach this is related to (see PHIprivacy.net and this site for previous reports of Aventura Hospital insider breaches). Note that the employee…

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CA: Mastermind of $1 Million Medicare Fraud Sentenced to 30 Months

Posted on April 9, 2015 by Dissent

I’ve repeatedly noted that Medicare/Medicaid fraud schemes pose significant risks to patients who do not know that their files have now been corrupted by inaccurate or false records used to support a fraud scheme. The following press release from the FBI and the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of California  highlights yet an…

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Advocate Health patients ask Seventh Circuit to revive data breach lawsuit

Posted on April 8, 2015 by Dissent

There’s an update to another case I’ve been following. Although Advocate Health won dismissal of some lawsuits stemming from the theft of four laptops with information on over 4 million patients, plaintiffs have asked the Seventh Circuit for another bite of the apple under the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA). So far, trying to litigate breaches…

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PA: Couple gets prison time for tax refund fraud scheme that used Crozer-Chester patients’ information

Posted on April 8, 2015 by Dissent

There’s an update to a case I’ve been covering since March, 2013, when Rafael Henriquez Polanco and his wife, Yanira Lopez, were first charged in a tax refund fraud scheme. According to court records, as part of the scheme, they paid employees at Crozer-Chester Medical Center and Chester Community Hospital to provide them with identity information of 144 patients.  The hospitals…

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OK: EyeCare of Bartlesville notifies patients after hard drive locked by malware

Posted on April 6, 2015 by Dissent

EyeCare of Bartlesville in Oklahoma  reported a breach to HHS on March 13 that appeared on HHS’s public breach tool on March 19. There was no notice on their web site that I could find at that time. Nor could I locate any  public notices via a Google search.  The incident was coded on HHS’s breach tool as a…

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