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Former Owner of Florida Pharmacy Convicted at Trial of $700,000 Medicare Fraud Scheme

Posted on November 21, 2016 by Dissent

More medical identity theft for fraud: The former owner of a Miami based retail pharmacy was convicted, following a three-day trial, for his participation in a scheme that involved the fraudulent submission of approximately $700,000 dollars in false billing to Medicare. Andres Alfonso, 54, of Miami, was convicted of three substantive counts of health care…

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Wentworth-Douglass reports insider breach at business associate, Ambucor (UPDATE5)

Posted on November 21, 2016 by Dissent

First it was Carolina Cardiology Consultants disclosing that 2500 of their patients had been affected by a breach at their business associate, Ambucor.  Then it was Lebanon Cardiology Associates, PC (now known as WellSpan Cardiology) notifying HHS that 537 of their patients had been affected by Ambucor’s incident. Now it’s Wentworth-Douglass Hospital notifying 775 of their patients of the breach….

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Briar Hill Management notifies 2,000 nursing facilities residents of lost laptop

Posted on November 21, 2016 by Dissent

Notice of Privacy Event at Briar Hill Management Briar Hill Management of Ridgeland, Mississippi provides management services for skilled nursing facilities in the State. The company takes resident privacy very seriously and, as part of that commitment, it is notifying all potentially affected residents of a privacy event that may impact personal health information. On…

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IG: IRS Employees Sent Unencrypted Emails Containing Personal Data of Thousands of Taxpayers

Posted on November 20, 2016 by Dissent

Ian Smith reports: A recent report from the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA) found that IRS employees sent unencrypted emails which contained 8,031 different taxpayers’ personally identifiable information. According to the report, TIGTA found 326 unencrypted emails containing taxpayer data. 275 of the emails were sent internally within IRS, while 51 emails were…

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Michigan State University confirms data breach of server containing 400,000 student, staff records (Updated)

Posted on November 18, 2016 by Dissent

WXYZ reports: Michigan Sate University is confirming that someone breached a database that contains around 400,000 records containing personal information. The breach happened on November 13. According to MSU, that information “included names, Social Security numbers, MSU identification numbers, and in some cases, date of birth of some current and former students and employees. It…

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Buffalo Public Schools exposed more than 4,000 records with students’ and parents’ personal information [DISPUTED]

Posted on November 18, 2016 by Dissent

Update: This report has been disputed. BPS claims that their IT department says “this is a dummy test page with no real information.” DataBreaches.net notes that the file was more than 100 pages, populated with information. One record on the first page did appear to be test or dummy data, but because DataBreaches.net did not…

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