Tom Spalding reports: A 28-year-old Indianapolis man was sentenced today to two years in state prison for trying to extort $208,00 from an insurance company after stealing a computer server. Kevin M. Stewart was the first to be prosecuted under a law that makes it a crime to commit extortion with material from a protected…
Category: Health Data
Health care: A ‘goldmine’ for fraudsters
Parija Kavilanz reports: There’s a group of people who really love the U.S. health care system — the fraudsters, scammers and organized criminal gangs who are bilking the system of as much as $100 billion a year. Health care identity theft dominated all other crimes in the sector last year, according to Louis Saccoccio, executive…
(follow-up) Kaiser employee fired after patient information was stolen from her car
Bobby Caina Calvan reports: A Kaiser Permanente employee was fired last month after a computer storage drive, containing information on 4,000 Sacramento-area patients, was stolen from a car parked at her home, hospital officials reported Tuesday. Read more in The Sacramento Bee.
Kaiser Patient Data Stolen (updated)
KCRA reports: Information regarding approximately 15,000 Kaiser Permanente patients, including about 4,000 people in the Sacramento area, was stolen in December, the organization said Tuesday. Names and medical record numbers — and in some cases age, gender, phone number and general information regarding their medical care — were taken Dec. 1 when an external electronic…
Kaiser Patient Data Stolen
KCRA reports: Information regarding approximately 15,000 Kaiser Permanente patients, including about 4,000 people in the Sacramento area, was stolen in December, the organization said Tuesday. Names and medical record numbers — and in some cases age, gender, phone number and general information regarding their medical care — were taken Dec. 1 when an external electronic…
Health Net reports yet another breach
To add to Health Net’s data protection woes, on January 6, it notified the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office that on September 9, it learned that a report sent electronically to one of its general insurance agents mistakenly contained information belonging to Health Net members who were not clients of that agent. The personal information…