More on the insider breach at Flowers Hospital previously noted on this blog: An attorney claims files containing personal information of patients were stolen from a place inside Flowers Hospital that had limited security and may have been accessible to many people including the public. “I don’t know how many were taken but we have…
Category: Health Data
Ca: Breach of privacy leaves patient's family distraught
Darren Taylor reports: A Sault Ste. Marie woman is angry, emotionally distraught and considering legal action over the fact her mother’s medical records were inappropriately accessed by an employee of Sault Area Hospital (SAH). The woman, who prefers to remain anonymous, has told SooToday.com a letter she received from Sonia Tassone, freedom of information and…
FTC told to disclose the data security standards it uses for data security enforcement actions
Jaikumar Vijayan reports: The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) can be compelled to disclose details of the data security standards it uses to pursue enforcement action against companies that suffer data breaches, the agency’s chief administrative law judge ruled Thursday. The decision came in response to a motion filed by LabMD, a now-defunct medical laboratory that…
FTC told to disclose the data security standards it uses for data security enforcement actions (updated)
Jaikumar Vijayan reports: The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) can be compelled to disclose details of the data security standards it uses to pursue enforcement action against companies that suffer data breaches, the agency’s chief administrative law judge ruled Thursday. The decision came in response to a motion filed by LabMD, a now-defunct medical laboratory that…
69 Vermont docs, health care providers targeted in tax scam
Sam Hemingway reports: At least 69 Vermont physicians and health care workers, many of them connected to Fletcher Allen Health Care in Burlington, were targets of a nationwide tax scam involving identity theft and the filing of fraudulent federal income tax returns in their names. “It’s mostly doctors, but it’s not restricted to them,” Paul…
150 doctors target of tax fraud in NH, Vt., Shaheen says
I’m pleased to see that the rash of stolen identity refund fraud (SIRF) affecting health care professionals, discussed here and here, is getting wider media attention. Brian Krebs reported it on the other day, and that always helps wake up the media. Now the Associated Press reports: New Hampshire Sen. Jeanne Shaheen has asked the…