Ashley White reports: Tangela Lawson-Brown was found guilty after a three-day federal trial in Tallahassee. The 41-year-old was convicted of wire fraud, theft of government funds, possession of unauthorized access devices and aggravated identity theft, according to a statement from the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Florida. Between October 2011 and December 2012, Lawson-Brown worked as a…
Category: Health Data
Cloudy with a chance of PHI leaks
Maybe we should do this one as a “write your own headline” exercise. Earlier this week, Kromtech Security reported that they had uncovered yet another improperly secured AWS S3 bucket that was exposing protected health information. The company that was responsible for the collection of the home monitoring data, Patient Home Monitoring, was exposing what…
No holds barred? TheDarkOverlord threatens students with physical violence to send FBI a message to back off
DataBreaches.net has been reporting on TheDarkOverlord (TDO) since they first burst on the scene in June, 2016. Since then, this site has reported on numerous attacks by them on health care entities, financial and business entities, a Hollywood post-production studio, and a defense contractor. Now they have begun to target the education sector, and an official at the…
Woman used stolen patient information to rent a car, cops say
Raisa Habersham reports: A former clinic employee is accused of stealing patients’ information and using one of the victim’s identity to rent a car, Atlanta police said. Police are not releasing the identity of the woman, who is still on the run and has 10 warrants to her name, Channel 2 Action News reported. The…
Aetna offers immediate relief program to members affected by HIV disclosure incident
As this site noted in August, health insurer Aetna had a privacy breach when almost 12,000 members’ HIV status was unintentionally disclosed in mailing envelope windows. This week, Aetna announced it was offering immediate assistance to members affected by the breach. It’s unusual to see a breached entity offer such immediate assistance, and I think…
NC tech firm to pay $264K fine for Vermont data breach
AP reports that Vermont settled with a subcontractor for its Health Connect service after a breach in which the subcontractor didn’t – and possibly would never have – notified anyone about a breach they had been alerted to: Vermont’s attorney general says a technology company will pay a $264,000 fine for a data breach that…