There’s a follow-up to an insider theft case previously noted on this site. Y. Peter Kang reports: A California state jury on Tuesday awarded $25.1 million in damages to Mount Olympus Mortgage Co., finding rival mortgage lender Guaranteed Rate Inc. liable for illegally transferring hundreds of private consumer loan files from MOMCo’s computer systems, according…
Category: Theft
In: Firm director remanded in data theft case
TNN reports: The directory of a company has been remanded in judicial custody for 14 days in the data theft case. Sunil Verma of M/s GC Associates was produced in a local court and remanded in judicial custody, said inspector H S Sekhon of cyber cell. “We have seized all relevant gadgets through which data…
Improper disclosure of research participants’ protected health information results in $3.9 million HIPAA settlement
There’s a follow-up to a breach I first noted on this blog in 2012 when Feinstein Institute for Medical Research issued a press release about a laptop stolen from a programmer’s car. Now HHS has issued a press release of its own: Improper disclosure of research participants’ protected health information results in $3.9 million HIPAA…
NY: Centers Plan for Healthy Living Notifies Members of Stolen Laptop
March 1, 2016 Subject: Stolen Laptop On January 4, 2016, Centers Plan for Healthy Living learned that on or about January 1, 2016 a laptop was stolen from its corporate offices. It is suspected that the laptop may have contained a file which included the name, address, date of birth, Medicaid number and/or Medicare number,…
Stolen laptop with patient info returned; no evidence ever powered on
Wow. You don’t see this type of thing too often. Premier Healthcare has an important update to their breach notification of March 3 that affected 206,000 patients. From their statement today: Missing Premier Healthcare Laptop Recovered Last week, Premier Healthcare, LLC, a Bloomington, Indiana, based physician-led multispecialty healthcare provider group, reported that a laptop computer had been…
So you found some records in the street? Now what do you do?
Sometimes people who find documents with personal information don’t know to whom to return them. Other times, they may know, but refuse to return them or stall in returning them. And yet others may decide to go to the media. Why people make the choices they make is beyond the scope of this blog, but…