From TrustedSec: As many of you may have already been aware, a breach at Community Health Systems (CHS) affecting an estimated 4.5 million patients was recently revealed. TrustedSec obtained the first details on how the breach occured and new information relating to this breach. The initial attack vector was through the infamous OpenSSL “heartbleed” vulnerability…
Category: Health Data
LabMD Wants FTC Sanctioned For ‘Secretive Relationship’
Law360 reports: LabMD Inc. asked an administrative law judge on Thursday to sanction the Federal Trade Commission for allegedly having a “secretive relationship” with the source of a key piece of evidence in its ongoing data breach case against the company.LabMD claims the FTC failed to authenticate a key piece of evidence received from a…
Friday reminder on the importance of background checks (updated)
San Mateo Medical Center is offering current and former employees three years of identity theft protection services because someone they hired for their payroll unit failed to disclosed a prior conviction for identity theft and they didn’t discover the conviction until after the employee had access to payroll data. Although an investigation disclosed no evidence…
Ex-Wheaton worker gets 7 years in identity theft case
Sarah Maslin reports: Janice M. Nieman stole the identities of more people than could fit in Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Glenn Yamahiro’s courtroom on Friday. The total: 848, the largest number of victims in a single defendant case in Milwaukee County history. For embezzling more than $1 million from Wheaton Franciscan Services, a not-for-profit health…
Blue Shield discloses 18,000 doctors’ Social Security numbers
Martyn Williams reports: The Social Security numbers of roughly 18,000 California physicians and health-care providers were inadvertently made public after a slip-up at health insurance provider Blue Shield of California, the organization said Monday. The numbers were included in monthly filings on medical providers that Blue Shield is required to make to the state’s Department…
MA: Uxbridge student data was on stolen Medicaid billing laptop
Susan Spencer reports: Parents whose children received services in Uxbridge public schools that were partially covered by the state Medicaid program are being encouraged to request a security freeze on their children’s credit reports after a laptop containing personal information was stolen from a Medicaid vendor’s vehicle. Kevin M. Carney, superintendent of schools, sent a…