This morning, Senior United States District Judge C. LeRoy Hansen sentenced Albuquerque resident Christine Horning, 35, to a 24-month term of imprisonment to be followed by four-years supervised release based on her guilty pleas to aggravated identity theft and health care fraud. Judge Hansen also ordered Horning to pay $24,679.48 in restitution to Medicaid and…
Category: Health Data
Ca: Patient info stolen from Bruyere
Doug Hempstead reports: Two computers containing patient information were stolen from the Bruyere Family Medicine Centre. The theft happened from the facility at 75 Bruyere St. Investigation revealed there was “a high probability” that password-protected patient data for some patients seen between 1971 and July 1, 2006 may have been archived on these computers. The…
Grays Harbor Pediatrics notifies patients after backup device stolen from employee's car
Great thanks to Grays Harbor Pediatrics for getting back to me with answers to some questions I sent them about their substitute notice concerning a stolen backup device. According to their emailed statement to this site, the backup device was stolen from the employee’s car. In response to my question as to whether the data…
Wentworth IT: Students' Personal and Medical Info Posted Online
Team 5 Investigates has learned that the personal information of as many as 1,300 current and former students at the Wentworth Institute of Technology was inadvertently put online. School officials notified all affected students of the data breach, which was reported to WIT on Dec. 22. The letter said that an “electronic file was accessible…
Error sends University of Missouri health insurance mail to wrong addresses
Adam Dodge of ESI sends along this news story by Ladd Egan: Hundreds of participants of University of Missouri’s health insurance program are being told to be on the look-out for insurance fraud after several hundred insurance communications were mailed to the wrong person. Health benefit statements, health services letters and new ID cards were among…
Insurance applications breach in FL: is anyone cleaning up that mess?
As part of following up on a breach involving the insecure disposal of health insurance applications (reported previously on this blog), I wanted to learn more about how insurance carriers respond to this type of breach. So I emailed questions to Aetna and Blue Cross Blue Shield of Florida asking whether their contracts with the…