A former health worker has pleaded guilty to unlawfully obtaining patient information by accessing the medical records of five members of her ex-husband’s family in order to obtain their new telephone numbers. Juliah Kechil, formerly known as Merritt, a former Health Care Assistant in the outpatients department at the Royal Liverpool University Hospital, was convicted…
Category: Health Data
More breaches without details…
Some breaches newly added to HHS’s breach tool that I haven’t found details on yet: “KCI USA, Inc.”,TX,,567,9/8/2011,Theft, Other Portable Electronic Device, 12/8/2011, Rite Aid Corporation,PA,,”2,900″, 10/7/2011, Other, Paper, 1/10/2011, State of Tennessee Sponsored Group Health Plan,TN,,”1,770″, 10/6/2011, Unauthorized Access/Disclosure, Paper,1/10/2011, (previously reported on DataBreaches.net) Advanced Occupational Medicine Specialists, IL , Blue Vantage Group, “7,226”,…
Health Care Company Alerts Hoosiers About Privacy Leak
From The Indy Channel: Members of an Indiana non-profit health care program were alerted on Wednesday about a possible privacy leak within the organization’s records. MDwise officials said the personal records of 2,700 Hoosiers covered by the Healthy Indiana Plan, Care Select and Hoosier Healthwise health programs were possibly leaked to the Internet. Officials said…
Update: FBI interviews patient about alleged Prime Healthcare upcoding, privacy breach
Karen M. Cheung has more on the Prime Healthcare case, reporting that the FBI has interviewed the patient who gave her records to California Watch. While much of the report concerns the original focus of possible fraudulent billing of Medicare, some of the story concerns the privacy aspects. Reading it, you can understand why Prime…
GA: Man gets a year in prison for hacking, wiping medical competitor's computer
This is a follow-up to a breach reported previously on this blog. As I had deduced, the affected practice was Atlanta Perinatal Associates. The competitor still hasn’t been publicly named, however. Fran Jeffries reports: An Atlanta man has been sentenced to serve a year and a month in prison for hacking into a competing medical…
UK: Patient details on stolen hard drives, ICO set to impose huge fine
A story in The Argus suggests that the Information Commissioner’s Office is set to slam an NHS trust with a huge fine over a data breach: Confidential information belonging to tens of thousands of patients and staff were at risk of being exposed after computer hard drives were stolen and put up for sale on…