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CT AG wants Health Net to do more for consumers affected by breach

Posted on March 14, 2011 by Dissent

Attorney General George Jepsen has asked Health Net for identity theft and credit protections for nearly 25,000 Connecticut residents because their medical and personal information may have been compromised in a nationwide data breach in early February. The health care company has acknowledged that nine unaccounted server drives in its Rancho Cordova, Calif. operations, contained…

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Walgreen accused of selling patient data

Posted on March 11, 2011 by Dissent

This must be the month to sue major pharmaceutical chains for allegedly selling patient prescription information. First it was CVS. Now it’s Walgreen. Reuters Legal reports: A lawsuit filed in California this week accuses national drug-store chain Walgreen Co of unlawfully selling medical information gleaned from patient prescriptions, another front in the battle over personal…

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Identity data of Texas Children’s doctors used in scam (updated)

Posted on March 11, 2011 by Dissent

In a follow-up to a breach reported last month on this blog, Brian Rogers reports: A Pearland man has been charged with identity theft in a scheme that used Social Security numbers of doctors and vendors at Texas Children’s Hospital to open more than 100 electricity accounts, prosecutors said. […] In court today, Assistant Harris…

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Stolen laptop creates concern for Ortho Montana patients (update2)

Posted on March 11, 2011 by Dissent

Rob Rogers reports: OrthoMontana is scrambling to warn current and past patients that their personal information may be on a laptop computer that was recently stolen from the company. The Billings orthopedic and sports medicine practice has sent letters across the city to those who may have been impacted. […] The laptop was heavily encrypted…

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Malware discovered on UMass Amherst server left patient info vulnerable

Posted on March 10, 2011 by Dissent

The following statement was posted on UMass Amherst’s web site on March 7: The University of Massachusetts Amherst is notifying clients of University Health Services (UHS) whose protected health information was possibly revealed after a workstation was inadvertently infected with a malware program. The malware infection occurred on June 30, 2010 and the vulnerability on…

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CVS Accused in Suit of Using Customers' Pharmacy Data for Drug Companies

Posted on March 9, 2011 by Dissent

Sophia Pearson reports: CVS Caremark Corp., the largest U.S. provider of prescription drugs, was sued over claims it used confidential prescription information to push products on behalf of pharmaceutical makers. CVS violated the privacy and rights of consumers by sending letters to customers’ physicians that promoted specific medications, according to a complaint filed March 7…

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