Fox5 reports: A San Diego man has pleaded guilty to his role in a scheme that took millions of dollars from U.S. servicemembers by utilizing stolen identity information, the Department of Justice said Friday. Trorice Crawford, 32, entered his plea Thursday to one count of conspiracy to launder monetary instruments and faces up to 20…
Category: Health Data
Russian disinformation campaign behind leak of Labour’s NHS documents, Reddit says
The Press Association reports: Leaked documents used by Jeremy Corbyn as proof Tories are planning to sell off the NHS have been linked to a Russian disinformation campaign on Reddit, the social media platform has said. Reddit said it had banned 61 accounts following an investigation of suspect activity. Read more on BreakingNews.ie.
NYC Health & Hospitals Corp. investigating alleged employee wrongdoing
NYC Health & Hospitals Corp. posted a notice this week (reproduced below) that suggests that a rogue employee may have been selling PHI to law firms or clinics that specialize in motor vehicle accident patients. Of note, this notice does not specify any one hospital where the employee worked. Did the employee have access to…
UK: NHS radiographer, 32, faces jail after illegally accessing more than 200 female patients’ personal records before hounding them for dates
Sophie Law reports: An NHS radiographer who illegally accessed the personal records of more than 200 female patients before pestering them for dates is facing jail. Andrew Stewart, 32, who worked at hospitals in Lanarkshire and Ayrshire, used his position to look up patient files of women he had been treating and made a note of their contact…
CO: Sunrise Community Health Notifies Patients of Data Security Incident
Sunrise Community Health in Colorado has posted a notice concerning a recent data security incident. From their notice: A recent incident at Sunrise Community Health (“Sunrise”) may affect the privacy of certain information. Sunrise is unaware of any actual or attempted misuse of this information. However, Sunrise is providing notification to individuals whose information was…
MN: Southeastern Minnesota Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery notifies 80,000 patients of ransomware incident
It’s gotten that there are so many ransomware incidents in the healthcare sector, that even tens of thousands of affected patients may not make headlines. One of the recent additions to HHS’s public breach tool involved the Southeastern Minnesota Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery of Minnesota. They reported that 80,000 patients were being notified. The following…