Coral Garnick reports that there have been 38 lawsuits filed and continuing investigations into the Premera breach. Mountlake Terrace-based Premera maintains that it does not “have any evidence that there was any criminal activity on anyone’s account as a result of the cyberattack,” company spokeswoman Melanie Coon said in an email statement. However, the company faces…
Category: Health Data
Health apps approved by NHS ‘may put users at risk of identity theft’
Charlie Cooper reports: Health apps accredited by the NHS may not be adequately protecting personal information from hackers, a university study has claimed. Experts in the UK and France subjected 79 health apps listed by the NHS’s ‘Health Apps Library’ to security checks. They found that around a third were sending identifiable information such as…
Woman sentenced to probation in theft of patient records from Wichita surgery center
Gabriella Dunn reports: A woman who took confidential information about patients at a Wichita surgery center was sentenced to 18 months of probation for seven counts of felony computer fraud Wednesday. …. [April] Galvan took the patient information during a mass forward of e-mails from her work account to her personal Gmail account right before…
UK: Data breach shock at trust which runs FGH in Barrow
The North-West Evening Mail reports: Confidential medical information including patient names, addresses and medical details were found abandoned in public places last year. The private documents were handed in to health bosses after being located in a bin, a hospital car park and a recently-cleaned hospital apartment, a report has revealed. A fourth serious data…
Kindred Transitional Care and Rehabilitation patients notified after computer theft
Patients at Kindred Transitional Care and Rehabilitation – Lawton are being notified that a computer containing limited health information was stolen from a locked office. Kindred learned of the theft on August 31, although it may have occurred as early as August 28. In a letter dated September 21, Senior Vice President and Chief Compliance Officer Kelly Priegnitz writes that…
Molina Healthcare notifies members that CVS employee stole some of their PHI for fraudulent purposes (Updated)
Molina Healthcare is notifying members of a breach of protected health information (PHI) involving an employee of their vendor, CVS. In a letter dated September 17, they write: This is to let you know that CVS, Molina Healthcare’s Over-the-Counter (OTC) benefits vendor, told us on 7/20/15 about a breach of your protected health information (PHI)….