George Brown reports on a breach that’s news to me: A former Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital employee has been indicted for identity theft and fraud. Investigators started looking at Fannie Randolph, 52, in late 2013 and was fired a short time later. Randolph worked in the emergency room where she reportedly used patient information to,…
Category: Health Data
Mississippi woman sentenced to prison for 10 years for stolen identity tax refund fraud scheme
Well, she was originally scheduled to be sentenced almost one year ago, but now Marietta Harris has been sentenced, it seems, and sentenced to the maximum prison term available under the guidelines. The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Mississippi issued a press release today: Marietta Harris, 39, of Jackson, was sentenced on…
FL: Employee of unnamed community health care provider indicted for stealing 9,000 patients’ info
And yet another insider breach in the healthcare sector results in criminal prosecution. The entity is not named in the press release and the case is not yet up on PACER: United States v. Yvenante Achille, Case. No. 15-20229-CR-Lenard In April 3, 2015, defendant Yvenante Achille, 30, of Miami, was charged by indictment for her participation…
FL: Former Aventura Hospital employee charged criminally in ID theft scheme
Today, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Florida revealed a prosecution stemming from an insider breach impacting Aventura Hospital patients, although I’m not confident I can figure out which Aventura Hospital breach this is related to (see PHIprivacy.net and this site for previous reports of Aventura Hospital insider breaches). Note that the employee…
CA: Mastermind of $1 Million Medicare Fraud Sentenced to 30 Months
I’ve repeatedly noted that Medicare/Medicaid fraud schemes pose significant risks to patients who do not know that their files have now been corrupted by inaccurate or false records used to support a fraud scheme. The following press release from the FBI and the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of California highlights yet an…
Advocate Health patients ask Seventh Circuit to revive data breach lawsuit
There’s an update to another case I’ve been following. Although Advocate Health won dismissal of some lawsuits stemming from the theft of four laptops with information on over 4 million patients, plaintiffs have asked the Seventh Circuit for another bite of the apple under the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA). So far, trying to litigate breaches…