Vidant Health reportedly experienced a data breach earlier this month, affecting employees at its Duplin hospital. Reflector reports that the system released the following statement: “Vidant Health discovered that personal information for Vidant Duplin Hospital employees was subject to unauthorized access by an outside source. The unauthorized access occurred in early February. We notified employees in writing…
Category: Health Data
FL: Radiology Regional Center Notifies Patients After Paper Records Fell Out of Vendor’s Truck
Radiology Regional Center, PA, a physician-owned and managed diagnostic facility with nine locations in Florida, announced today that on December 19, 2015, Radiology Regional Center was informed by its records disposal vender (sic), Lee County Solid Waste Division (“Lee County”), that, on that same date, paper records containing the personal information of Radiology Regional Center’s…
22,000 dental patients’ info exposed on unsecured Eaglesoft FTP server
Eaglesoft software by Patterson Dental is a popular patient management system. But just as one security researcher had concerns about patient data security in Henry Schein’s Dentrix G5 software, he’s also had concerns about Eaglesoft, albeit for different reasons. He contacted this site on February 6 and notified CERT of his concern: Eaglesoft does seem to…
Magnolia Health Corp. notifies its employees after their data acquired by someone impersonating CEO
Magnolia Health Corporation in Tulare, California has begun sending out notification letters after someone impersonated their CEO and “using what appeared to be his email address,” obtained personal information for all active employees of the corporation and each of the facilities managed by MHC [Twin Oaks Assisted Living, Inc., Twin Oaks Rehabilitation And Nursing Center,…
Alleged Con Man Charged with Impersonating a Psychiatrist and Prescribing Medications to Dozens of Patients in Chicago
A very disturbing identity theft case where if the charges are true, impacted medical care. CHICAGO — An alleged con man has been charged in federal court with holding himself out as a psychiatrist and fraudulently prescribing medications to a nine-year-old child and dozens of others. SCOTT C. REDMAN, 36, used the identity of an…
FL: Discarded medical records found unsecured at public landfill
Trevor Pettiford reports that discarded medical records were found unsecured at a county landfill facility in St. Petersburg, Florida. The records, complete with names, addresses, and family histories, were discovered by a man dumping bulk trash at the Pinellas County Solid Waste facility at 3095 114th Avenue North in St. Petersburg. They apparently came from the…