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Rogue insiders can go undetected for a long time….

Posted on July 28, 2017 by Dissent

So how are you determining if your Business Associate or vendor has a rogue employee who may be stealing or misusing your patients’ protected health information?  A notification from Anthem regarding an incident that affected more than 18,000 Medicare members in 21 states is a timely reminder that out of sight cannot mean out of mind…

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Plastic Surgery Associates of South Dakota notifies 10,200 after ransomware attack

Posted on July 28, 2017 by Dissent

From their web site, the practice’s notification. Note that some of the crucial data that might have enabled them to justify no need for notifications was lost/corrupted during the clean-up from the ransomware. Based on reports I’ve read over the past year, losing data during clean-up is not that rare, which should serve as a…

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Health data breaches in 2017: The terrible, horrible, no good, very bad year? Join us for webinar!

Posted on July 28, 2017 by Dissent

By now, you’ve probably read at least a few reports on mid-year figures for breaches that suggest that 2017 is worse than 2016.  In collaboration with Protenus, Inc., DataBreaches.net has worked up some mid-year figures for U.S. breaches involving health/medical data. Join me and Robert Lord of Protenus on Wednesday, August 2 at 1 pm,…

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D.C. Mistakenly Disclosed Confidential Information Of Homeless Residents To Advocacy Group

Posted on July 27, 2017 by Dissent

Martin Austermuhle reports: The D.C. Department of Human Services says it mistakenly disclosed confidential information of close to 1,500 households receiving housing assistance to a homeless advocacy group, which then used the information to contact those people directly — a move that the city agency says was unethical, but that the group defends as being in the…

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Women’s Health Group of Pennsylvania Notifies 300,000 Patients of Ransomware Attack

Posted on July 26, 2017 by Dissent

Mitch Blacher and David Chang report: A data breach at one of Pennsylvania’s largest health networks has sparked safety concerns and questions regarding why it took several months for patients to be notified. The Women’s Health Care Group of Pennsylvania, which is based in Oaks, Pennsylvania but has 45 offices serving women in Montgomery, Chester…

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Virginia Woman Admits Stealing WVU Medicine University Healthcare Patient Information

Posted on July 25, 2017 by Dissent

The Associated Press has an update on an insider breach previously noted earlier this year: Forty-one-year-old Angela Roberts of Stephenson, Virginia, entered the plea Monday in federal court in Martinsburg. Roberts admitted using someone else’s personal information to commit bank fraud in June 2016 in Berkeley County, West Virginia. She faces up to five years…

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