The University of Mississippi Medical Center (UMMC) has agreed to settle multiple alleged violations of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office for Civil Rights (OCR). OCR’s investigation of UMMC was triggered by a breach of unsecured electronic protected health information (“ePHI”) affecting approximately…
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Sen. Donnelly Presses Northern Indiana VA on Wrongful Sharing of Veterans’ PHI
July 23, 2016 – Granger, Ind. — U.S. Senator Joe Donnelly pressed the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Northern Indiana Health Care System following recent and troubling reports that the VA had mistakenly sent veterans’ personal health information to the wrong veteran. Donnelly sent a letter to Jay Miller, Director of the Department of Veterans…
WikiLeaks misstep: leaks thousands of DNC emails, some containing personal information
D.B. Hebbard reports: If WikiLeaks wanted to cause itself irreparable damage, it could not have done worse than to publish a huge dump of emails, some of which contain personal information such as passport or social security numbers, or credit card information. The organization, which usually gets support from the tech and liberal media, is…
Wikileaks posts nearly 20,000 hacked DNC emails online
Andrea Peterson reports: Wikileaks posted a massive trove of internal Democratic National Committee emails online Friday, in what the organization dubbed the first of a new “Hillary Leaks” series. The cache includes nearly 20,000 emails and over 8,000 file attachments from the inboxes of seven key staffers at the political party, including communications director Luis…
MA: Lynn man charged with stealing over 3400 identities, credit card info
Samantha Gross reports: A Lynn man was arraigned in Superior Court in Woburn Thursday for allegedly stealing the identities and credit card numbers for more than 3,400 people and using them to make online furniture purchases from an Everett company, according to the Middlesex District Attorney’s office. Cristian Villa-Marte, 32, was charged with two counts…
Appeals court won’t let journalist convicted in hacking case stay out of jail pending appeal
Josh Gerstein reports: A federal appeals court has denied a last-ditch reprieve for a journalist sentenced to two years in prison after being convicted in a hacking case. The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals issued an order Thursday denying former Reuters social media editor Matthew Keys’ plea to remain free while he appeals his convictions….