Robert Wilonsky of the Dallas Observer reports that the Carrell Memorial Clinic hacker who stupidly posted videos of himself committing his crimes on You Tube has pleaded guilty. Although the case was previously covered on DataBreaches.net, Wilonsky’s blog entry provides a number of background links for those who want more of the earlier coverage, as…
Category: Health Data
GA: Health worker charged with ID theft
A former employee at an Albany doctor’s office is in jail charged with identity fraud. 44-year-old Sylvia Green, who worked at Albany OB-GYN, is charged with financial identity fraud. Investigators say Green, who worked as a phone nurse, refilling patients’ prescriptions, stole the identity of a patient and used her information to try to take…
Laptop stolen from VA contractor contains veterans' personal data
I posted this yesterday to DataBreaches.net, but am posting it here, too, because even though the coverage so far doesn’t specifically mention that veterans’ health data were involved, it is a distinct possibility. Also, in updates to this story, it seems that the April 22 laptop theft affected 616 veterans, not 644 as originally reported:…
UCSF employee charged with wire fraud
Henry K. Lee reports: A UCSF Medical Center employee has been charged in federal court with wire fraud for allegedly using the Social Security numbers of fellow workers to complete online health surveys so that he could receive hundreds of $100 vouchers. From January to April, Cam Giang of San Francisco used other UC employees’…
UCSF employee charged with wire fraud
Henry K. Lee reports: A UCSF Medical Center employee has been charged in federal court with wire fraud for allegedly using the Social Security numbers of fellow workers to complete online health surveys so that he could receive hundreds of $100 vouchers. From January to April, Cam Giang of San Francisco used other UC employees’…
Former WDH employee files countersuit: Says pathologists falsely accused her of tampering with patient records
Adam D. Krauss reports on the latest development in this ongoing case: The former Wentworth-Douglass Hospital employee who two doctors said unlawfully altered patients’ records has filed court papers denying the claim and charging she lost her livelihood over the doctors’ false claims. Mary Lemieux, who worked at WDH for 14 years until being terminated…