Category: Health Data

Sometimes the personal connection to a breach does get legislators off the dime. Lee Davidson reports: The wife of Sen. Stuart Reid, R-Ogden, was among 780,000 victims of a Utah health data security breach last March. On Wednesday, Reid passed through the Senate a bill designed to help prevent such breaches in the future. SB20,…

Casey Murphy reports: An employee of the Northeast Texas Public Health district was arrested earlier this month for allegedly stealing the identities of hundreds of patients at a Mount Pleasant clinic she worked for before moving to Tyler. Selena Patino, 38, of Mount Pleasant, was arrested by the Titus County Sherriff’s Office on Jan. 4…

Back in June 2012, the Department of Justice announced that Alci Bonannee had been arrested and charged with ID theft in a massive tax refund fraud scheme. At the time, they found evidence that over 1,000 fraudulent returns had been filed by Bonannee and her co-conspirators between January 2011 and June 6, 2012. This week, Bonannee was…

Evan Brown writes: Palleschi v. Cassano, — N.Y.S.2d —, 2013 WL 322573 (N.Y.A.D. 1 Dept. January 29, 2013) Petitioner — an emergency medical services supervisor and lieutenant in the New York Fire Department — admitted that he posted a picture to Facebook of a computer screen containing confidential and privileged information about a 911 caller’s…

More snoops fired. Tyler Kula reports: Hospital staff have reportedly been fired after a privacy breach at Bluewater Health. Multiple sources told The Observer Monday as many as 17 people were dismissed after non-clinical staff accessed patient information through a password-protected system — without authorization — earlier this month. Sources told The Observer that at…