Courtney Perkes reports: Blue Shield of California announced Thursday that personal information from nearly 21,000 individual and family plan customers was accessed in a security breach late last year. The information included names, addresses, dates of birth and Social Security numbers. Read more on Orange County Register. This incident does not appear to be on…
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MT: St. Peter’s Hospital, pharmacist, sued over medical privacy following alleged rape
Sanjay Talwani reports: A woman who went to St. Peter’s Hospital in Helena after an alleged a rape is suing the hospital and a pharmacist, saying they violated her medical privacy. The woman told authorities last year she was raped by Andrew Stevick back in January 2015. He’s admitted to criminal endangerment in the case and…
UK: Hospital trust rapped after it lost birth records and sent sensitive medical data to wrong person
Croydon Advertiser reports: Croydon’s hospital trust mistakenly sent a patient’s sensitive medical information to the wrong person. And while being investigated for that data breach, Croydon Health Services NHS Trust “misplaced” its register of births for April 2009 to May 2010 for five months. The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has rapped the trust for the…
Four Miami-Dade Residents Indicted for Participation in Fraud Schemes
Four Miami-Dade residents have been indicted for their participation in various schemes to defraud the United States government. Fernando Mendez Villamil, 48, of South Miami, Maritza Exposito, 57, of Miami, Arnaldo Oscar Jimenez, 57, of Hialeah, and Yomara Vila, 45, of Miami were charged in a twenty-one count indictment for their participation in a scheme…
NY: St. Luke’s Cornwall Hospital notifies patients after thumb drive with limited PHI is stolen
In reading the following statement from the hospital, keep in mind that the hospital’s home page says the incident involves the “possible disclosure” of “a limited number” of patients’ personal information. Their report to HHS of December 30th indicates that 29,156 patients were impacted. That’s some “limited number.” On October 31, 2015, an individual entered a restricted area of St….
AU: Victoria’s Barwon Health website targeted by pro-Palestinian hackers, medical records ‘not at risk’
Margaret Paul reports that Barwon Health’s site was defaced by pro-Palestinian hackers: In a statement, Barwon Health said patients’ medical records were not at risk, because the site is hosted by an external service, with no access to sensitive information. Read more on ABC (AU). The Geelong Advertiser adds: The Palestinian sympathiser that hacked a…