Abby Sewell reports: Following a break-in at a county health contractor’s office that led to the theft of computers containing personal information about more than 342,000 patients, Los Angeles County supervisors moved to tighten protocols for protecting data. The county already requires that workers’ laptops be encrypted. The supervisors voted Tuesday to extend that policy…
Category: Health Data
Another North Shore University Hospital employee charged as part of ID theft ring
CBS New York reports that another former employee at North Shore University Hospital has been charged with identity theft. Latoya Talbert, 24, has been accused of stealing the identities so she could go shopping. Talbert was arraigned in Nassau County for her alleged involvement in an identity theft ring that began in 2011. Read more…
Lawsuit against Eisenhower Medical Center dismissed on appeal
There’s an update to a lawsuit that followed a breach involving a computer stolen from Eisenhower Medical Center in 2011. As reported at the time, the types of unencrypted patient information on the computer was confined to an electronic index patient names, ages, dates of birth, the last four digits of the Social Security numbers…
FTC vs. LabMD hearing starts
Opening statements were held today in FTC vs. LabMD, one of only two data security enforcement cases that have not resulted in a consent order to settle charges. FTC attorney Alain Sheer provided the overview of the FTC’s complaint, alleging that LabMD failed to have a reasonable and appropriate data security program. He was only just into his…
Disgraceful misuse of medical records in Texas political campaign
This is just plain ugly politics. And any person involved in making these records public for political purposes is not fit for any public office.
LabMD Files Appeal, Takes Fight Against FTC Back to 11th Circuit
From Cause of Action, who are representing LabMD in their battle with the FTC: Today, Cause of Action (CoA) is filing an emergency appeal on behalf of LabMD, following a federal judge’s ruling that he lacked jurisdiction even while telling the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) “the public is served by guiding people beforehand rather than beating them…