KBMT reports: A Beaumont doctor has been convicted in connection with a $6.7 million federal health care fraud scheme. Grigoriy T. Rodonaia of Port Neches, was convicted by a jury on Tuesday for 12 counts of health care fraud, three counts of aggravated identity theft, making a false statement and two counts of accepting kickbacks…
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TX: Police investigate Sherman ISD data breach
News12 reports: Sherman police are investigating a district-wide data breach, within Sherman ISD’s private files. The data included student’s social security numbers and full names. Sherman ISD said in a letter to parents Thursday night, that two Sherman High School students accessed the private information. Read more on News12.
Mayo Clinic faces lawsuit in breach of patients’ health records
Not surprisingly, Mayo Clinic is facing a lawsuit over an insider-wrongdoing (snooping) breach that was disclosed last month. Jim Spencer reports: Patients whose medical records were improperly accessed by a former Mayo Clinic employee are attempting to mount a class-action lawsuit against the health care provider for failing to protect their sensitive personal data. The…
June retrial date set for ex-CIA engineer in leak case
The Associated Press reports: The retrial of a former CIA software engineer charged with leaking secrets to WikiLeaks in an espionage case will begin June 7, a judge said Wednesday. U.S. District Judge Paul A. Crotty set the date for Joshua Schulte over the objections of a defense lawyer who said it would be impossible…
New Haven Health Department failed to terminate former employee’s access to protected health information
The City of New Haven, Connecticut (New Haven) has agreed to pay $202,400 to the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and to implement a corrective action plan to settle potential violations of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Privacy and Security Rules. The…
Ex-Trillium Health employee accused of hacking co-workers, stealing nude photos
Will Cleveland reports: A former technology employee at Trillium Health is accused of accessing the personal information of numerous co-workers and stealing nude photographs and videos of them, the United States Attorney’s Office announced Thursday. Ameer Elashmawy, 28, a former Trillium information systems security support coordinator, is charged with unauthorized access of a protected computer…