Carlos Gieseken reports: The billing information of 14,000 Sacred Heart Health System patients was compromised recently when an employee email account of the healthcare provider’s third-party billing vendor was hacked. No medical records were breached, but hackers gained access to patient names, dates of service, dates of birth, diagnoses and procedures, total charges and physician…
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Paramedic Fired for Taking Pictures with Dying Patients
Waqas writes: … Tatiana Kulikova is nothing like a compassionate paramedic. The 25 year-old Tatiana has been fired by health officers after viewing the pictures she posted online taken in the back of an ambulance. There are several utterly sickening selfies posted by Tatiana. In one of the images, the Russian blonde can be seen…
Amedisys notifies 6,909 patients after failure to locate 142 devices during inventory
On March 2nd, home health and hospice care provider Amedisys issued a press release that disclosed that during a risk management inventory of their devices, which commenced during the second half of 2014, they were unable to locate 142 encrypted computers and laptops. The devices had been assigned to Amedisys clinicians and other team members who left the company between 2011…
Rex Mundi threatens to expose patients’ blood test results if lab doesn’t pay extortion demand (update 1)
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….
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…