The day after I pointed out how a USAO, Southern District of Florida press release failed to identify the medical practice from where patient data was stolen – and I named the facility – the same USAO office issued another press release today involving one of the other defendants in the conspiracy. And this time,…
Category: Health Data
AL: Patient data exposed on the internet due to subcontractor's error
There’s been another addition to HHS’s public breach tool. Punuru J.M. Reddy, MD, Inc. in Alabama reported a breach involving their billing vendor and business associate, PracMan, Inc. The incident, which affected 1,179 of their patients, reportedly occurred on August 22, 2013 and was added to HHS’s breach tool yesterday. In a statement issued March…
West Palm Beach resident pleads guilty in ID theft for tax refund fraud scheme; patient info used
Kawana Brown, 36, of West Palm Beach, pled guilty last week for her participation in a wide-ranging identity theft scheme. Specifically, Brown pled guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud, in violation of 18 U.S.C. ‘ 1349 (Count 1), three counts of wire fraud, in violation of 18 U.S.C. ‘ 1343 (Counts…
Personal Records Thrown In Dumpster From Topeka Dental Service Company
WIBW in Kansas reports: Last week 13 News reported about confidential records found in a dumpster behind a Topeka office building. Since then, 13 News has been investigating to find out where those documents came from, and it seems the origin isn’t too far away from where they were found. […] Jim found an additional…
KY: UK HealthCare warns 1,079 patients after laptop with their info stolen from Talyst employee
LEX18 reports: UK HealthCare [University of Kentucky HealthCare] is notifying more than 1,000 patients about a breach of protected health information. Officials say someone stole a password protected lap-top owned by a business partner of the hospital. They say that laptop contains confidential information about current and former patients. Read more on LEX18 A statement…
Settlement of Lawsuit against Stanford Hospital & Clinics and Former Vendor Gets Tentative Approval
Back in August 2011, Stanford Hospital & Clinics (SHC) disclosed that medical records for 20,000 emergency room patients, including names and diagnosis codes, had been exposed on a public website due to the actions of a former billing contractor’s employee who, seeking help converting the data, had uploaded the file on the “Student of Fortune” website. Both…