Casey Vaughn reports: Deputies said a Taylors woman is accused of identity thefts while working at Greenville Hospital System, using hospital records for her financial gain. Greenville County deputies said 32-year-old Danell Adams was charged with two counts of financial identity fraud after deputies said she used the victims’ personal information to lease an apartment…
Category: Health Data
‘Indian call centres accused of selling Britons’ personal data for as little as two pence’
Deja vu all over again: Indian call centres are selling Britons’ confidential personal data, including credit card information, medical and financial records to criminals and marketing firms for as little as two pence, an undercover investigation has discovered. Two ‘consultants’, claiming to be IT workers at several call centres boasted of possesing 45 different sets…
Does the HHS Office for Civil Rights Need a Priority Check?
Joseph Goedert asks some great questions and raises some excellent points about HHS OCR’s handling of the BCBS of Tennessee breach. Do read his commentary.
Man pleads guilty to fraud after stealing thousands of X-rays
Speaking of stolen x-rays, here’s another case in the news this week. Andrew Seymour reports from Canada: A Toronto man stopped by police in a U-Haul truck filled with nearly 54,000 stolen X-rays was after the silver in the medical imaging scans, and not the personal information printed on them, a prosecutor told a judge…
AL: 1,000 X-rays stolen from Huntsville Hospital by vendor impersonator
Stealing old x-rays for the silver is still a problem. Keith Clines reports that in this case, the x-rays contained only the patient’s name, date of birth and medical record number for somewhere between 125 and 175 patients.
Georgia Health Sciences University notifying 513 patients of security breach after laptop stolen from nurse's home
This notice was posted today on Georgia Health Science University’s web site, although I don’t see a link to it from their home page: Georgia Health Sciences University has notified 513 patients about the theft of a laptop computer that may have contained some of their personal information. On Jan. 18, a nurse practitioner who works…