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Montgomery woman sentenced to prison for stealing personal info of 800 Troy Regional Medical Center patients

Posted on February 7, 2013 by Dissent

As a follow-up to a breach previously covered on this blog: Angeline Austin, who stole over 800 Troy Hospital (Troy Regional Medical Center) patients’ identity information for use in a tax refund fraud scheme while employed by Southern Records Management, was sentenced to 65 months in prison. Of note, the tax refund fraud/ID theft had serious…

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Wayne Memorial Hospital notified patients after CD with their unencrypted records was lost in the mail

Posted on February 7, 2013 by Dissent

This was reported by James Haggerty on January 23, but I just stumbled across it now: A compact disc including information on Medicare patients at Wayne Memorial Hospital disappeared recently en route to its intended recipient. An administrator at Wayne Memorial in Honesdale on Nov. 28 sent the unencrypted disc and related paperwork by certified…

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12 Sue North Shore University Hospital In L.I., Allege Breach Resulted in Identity Thefts

Posted on February 6, 2013 by Dissent

Twelve people filed a lawsuit yesterday against North Shore University Hospital in New York, following a breach in which patient face sheets were stolen. Some claim to have been victims of identity theft as a result of the breach.  Two suspects were arrested last year. And no, this breach isn’t listed in HHS’s breach tool…

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Boca Raton Regional Hospital employee charged in tax refund fraud scheme that used patients' information

Posted on February 5, 2013 by Dissent

Brian Bandell reports: Federal authorities charged eight people with identity theft for filing fraudulent federal tax refunds in five separate cases, including that of a former Boca Raton Regional Hospital scheduler. Shalamar Major had access to the personal information of the hospital’s patients and gave it to Tanisha Wright in exchange for the promise of future payments, according to a…

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HHS breach investigations badly backlogged, leaving us in the dark

Posted on February 5, 2013 by Dissent

To say that I am frequently frustrated by HHS’s “breach tool” would be an understatement. Their reporting form and coding often makes it impossible to know – simply by looking at their entries – what type of breach occurred. Consider this description from one of their entries: “Theft, Unauthorized Access/Disclosure”,”Laptop, Computer, Network Server, Email” So…

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Wisconsin clinic notifies patients of information breach that occurred last summer

Posted on February 2, 2013 by Dissent

The Pierce County Herald reports: River Falls Medical Clinic says it has notified about 2,400 clients of a breach of unsecured personal information. The breach occurred after clinic officials reported stolen equipment to the River Falls Police in the summer of 2012. Police investigated and found the stolen equipment, as well as paper documents containing…

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