Mark S. Melodia, Steven Boranian, Frederick Lah and Melissa A. Geist comment on the AvMed breach lawsuit settlement. The AvMed breach involving a stolen laptop with unencrypted information on 1.2 million people and lawsuit have been mentioned numerous times on the companion PHIprivacy.net blog (coverage linked from here). Last week, a judge for the Southern District…
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AvMed Data Breach Class Action Settlement Gets Final Approval – Payment To Be Made To Class Members Who Did Not Experience ID Theft
Mark S. Melodia, Steven Boranian, Frederick Lah and Melissa A. Geist comment on the AvMed breach lawsuit settlement. The AvMed breach and lawsuit have been mentioned numerous times on this blog (coverage linked from here). Last week, a judge for the Southern District of Florida gave final approval to a settlement between health insurance provider AvMed and…
CA: Former medical billing employee charged with ID theft
CBS in Los Angeles reports that Reon Jordan, 34, a student at West Los Angeles Community College, was arrested on identity theft charges. “Additionally, the investigation has revealed that Suspect Jordan afforded herself hair extensions, clothing, jewelry and airline tickets to Alaska with her proceeds from the scheme,” Deputy Kim Manatt said. Jordan reportedly obtained her…
FL: Three Sentenced in Orange County Health Department Identity Theft Scheme (update 1)
There’s a follow-up to a breach noted previously on this blog: U.S. District Judge Roy B. Dalton, Jr. sentenced Delray Duncan, Gerald Williams, and Shanterica Smith to federal prison yesterday for identity theft. Specifically, the court sentenced Duncan to 42 months in federal prison, Williams to 54 months in federal prison, and Smith to 60…
Ca: Island Health offers apologies over privacy breach
There’s a follow-up to a breach reported recently in this blog. John Harding reports: Island Health is apologizing for a breach of privacy that put personal information of its clients up for sale at a local thrift shop. The NEWS broke the story of the breach in its Thursday edition. A local woman purchased file…
B.C. civil servant fired over privacy breach was rehired Monday
Cindy Harnett reports the latest development in a privacy breach affecting millions of Canadians whose data were shared with researchers without their consent. In the first public settlement to arise out of a sweeping two-year Health Ministry investigation, a B.C. civil servant was rehired Monday. Robert Neil Hart, one of seven who lost jobs as…