Gurinder Mand pleaded guilty in federal court in San Jose on Dec. 12, 2012, to conspiracy to commit health care fraud. The plea was announced by United States Attorney Melinda Haag from the Northern District of California. In pleading guilty, Mand admitted she knowingly and willfully conspired with the former owner of EZ Step pharmacy…
Category: Health Data
NI: Boxes collapse led to data breach
The collapse of a stack of storage boxes was the incident that triggered a serious data breach at a crisis helpline provider in Londonderry, an investigation has found. Confidential file notes on clients who had rung the Lifeline service were discovered blowing around outside the offices of charity organisation Contact in the city this summer….
California judge orders Walgreens to pay $16.57M to settle charges of improper disposal of environmental waste and records with consumers' confidential medical information
Wow. Linda Foley writes: San Diego County District Attorney Bonnie Dumanis, together with 42 other California District Attorneys and two city attorneys, announced on Dec 13 that a judge in Alameda Superior Court has ordered the Illinois-based Walgreen Company to pay $16.57 million as part of a settlement of a civil environmental prosecution. Walgreens was accused of illegally…
Owner of North Miami Beach Dry Cleaner Pleads Guilty in Identity Theft Tax Refund Fraud Scheme
What’s a dry cleaner story doing in PHIprivacy.net, you wonder? Well, look where they obtained the personal information. From a press release from the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida: … Frantz Auguste, 53, of Sunny Isles, pled guilty yesterday to one count of access device fraud and one count of aggravated identity theft…
Details on the Jackson South Community Hospital breach
Details have been disclosed about a breach I noted yesterday. According to NBC in Miami: A baby born at Jackson South Community Hospital was at the center of an internal investigation into a breach of patient privacy and hospital policy – and two hospital administrators no longer work there as a result, sources said. According to sources, the…
Miami Family Medical Centre able to access/recover ransomed patient records; didn't pay ransom (UPDATED)
Danny Garcia reports on some good news for Miami Family Medical Centre in Australia. As I previously noted, their patient records had been encrypted by an overseas hacker who was demanding ransom to give them the encryption key: Garcia reports that Essential IT Services, a Gold Coast based reseller, was able to get them back into…