Amanda Chan reports the follow-up to an incident previously covered on PHIprivacy.net: The Charlotte psychologist whose patient records were discovered at a county recycling facility last month contacted 1,590 of his patients via letter to inform them of the incident on Friday, his lawyer said. Ervin Batchelor, owner of Carolina Center for Development and Rehabilitation,…
Category: Breach Incidents
Recruiter in Cheesecake Factory Card-Skimming Case Pleads Guilty
Note: this is a follow-up to a case previously covered on this site. Nicole Lakesha Ward, 28, of Washington D.C., pled guilty today to conspiring to commit bank fraud relating to a card-skimming scheme that targeted customers of The Cheesecake Factory in Washington, D.C. Ward faces a maximum penalty of 30 years in prison when…
NY: Medical and doctors’ records scattered all over North Tonawanda
Dear Congress: Please view the TV coverage below and then tell me again why none of you have the determination and will to write and enact a bill that requires protection of paper records containing sensitive information and that requires notification in the event of a breach. George Richert reports: Confidential medical records were scattered…
TX: Child support fraud sweep nets two more (update 1)
Guillermo Contreras reports: Two San Antonio women who are among 13 people charged with diverting child-support payment money to themselves instead of the rightful recipients were released on bond Tuesday. Christine Aguirre is among the six former employees of Texas’ child-support payment processing contractor, Affiliated Computer Services Inc., who are accused of wrongfully diverting state-sanctioned…
Texas Children’s Hospital and Baylor College of Medicine Report Stolen Laptop
From the Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children’s Hospital‘s web sites: On May 13, 2010, a physician from Baylor College of Medicine and affiliated with Texas Children’s Hospital had his password-protected laptop stolen from an office at Texas Children’s Hospital in Houston, Texas. Electronic files on the laptop contained demographic and clinical information of…
CT: Three charged with credit card fraud/ID theft ring at local stores
Three New Yorkers were arrested Thursday as they left a local store and charged with orchestrating a credit card fraud and identity theft ring that struck a series of Westport merchants. […] Among the items recovered from the suspects’ vehicle were fraudulent credit cards, credit card statements and a credit card reader, police said. Read…