Category: Health Data

The Associated Press reports on another instance of home health aides stealing identity information or credit cards from the vulnerable individuals they are supposed to be caring for: Juliet Rose Levesque, a home healthcare provider from Fall River, stole the identity of a Bristol man for whom she was providing in-home nursing services. Levesque is…

Steve Tellier reports: The U.S. Secret Service said it has busted a one-of-a-kind identity theft ring, and one of the suspects is also accused of trying to kill another member of the ring. Eight suspects were indicted by a federal grand jury on Tuesday. The Secret Service said the suspects stole the identities of about…

Lora Hines reports: Community Hospital of San Bernardino has been fined a total of $325,000 for breaches of more than 200 patient records by two employees in 2009. Community Hospital is one of five facilities statewide recently fined $675,000 for unauthorized access of nearly 230 medical records for more than 200 patients in violation of…

Jason Kincaid reports: Sending your spit sample to a startup may not seem like such a good idea, after all. On Friday, 23andMe, the company that allows consumers to get portions of their genome tested for a relatively modest fee, announced that “a number of new 23andMe customer samples were incorrectly processed” by the lab…