TYLER, Texas – A 65-year-old Dallas County, Texas, physician, has been resentenced to federal prison for health care fraud and identity theft violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney John M. Bales. In July 2014, Tariq Mahmood, of Cedar Hill, Texas, was found guilty by a jury of conspiracy to commit health…
Category: Health Data
CalOptima notifies members of breach 8 months later?
CalOptima, the Orange County organized health system that administers health insurance programs for low-income children, adults, seniors and people with disabilities, posted the following on their web site: Notice of Data Breach At CalOptima, our mission is to provide members with access to quality health care services delivered in a cost-effective and compassionate manner. Protecting our members’…
St. Elizabeth Physicians’ email gaffe exposed patient email addresses
Here’s an incident involving St. Elizabeth Physicians that happened last month but just showed up on HHS’s public breach tool now. From their August 23 notice: On July 12, 2016 St. Elizabeth Physicians inadvertently released the email addresses of 674 individuals in an email sent by its Weight Management Center inviting the recipients to a…
Geisinger Health Plan notifies 2800 that processing error exposed their PHI to others
Geisinger Health Plan issued the following statement on September 12: DANVILLE, PA — In accordance with Geisinger Health System policy and applicable federal regulations, Geisinger Health Plan has notified approximately 2,800 members from 220 employers that some of their Protected Health Information (PHI) has been disclosed in an unauthorized manner. This disclosure does not affect Geisinger…
“Fancy Bear” Release More Confidential Athlete Data; WADA Confirms
Swimming World reports: The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) confirmed that another batch of confidential athlete information has been released by the cyber hackers known as “Fancy Bear.” The Agency originally announced a leak by the cyber hackers on September 13th, however this time the group released confidential data on 25 athletes from eight different countries. Ten athletes…
The Mystery of the Reappearing FTP server, Part 2
Earlier this week, in the context of discussing of how old and forgotten databases can come back to bite us in costly databreaches, I reported on a somewhat bizarre situation involving files belonging to a Pennsylvania dentist. I have since obtained more information on that situation, and thought I would update you all. Let’s start…