So how are you determining if your Business Associate or vendor has a rogue employee who may be stealing or misusing your patients’ protected health information? A notification from Anthem regarding an incident that affected more than 18,000 Medicare members in 21 states is a timely reminder that out of sight cannot mean out of mind…
Category: ID Theft
Virginia Woman Admits Stealing WVU Medicine University Healthcare Patient Information
The Associated Press has an update on an insider breach previously noted earlier this year: Forty-one-year-old Angela Roberts of Stephenson, Virginia, entered the plea Monday in federal court in Martinsburg. Roberts admitted using someone else’s personal information to commit bank fraud in June 2016 in Berkeley County, West Virginia. She faces up to five years…
OH: Local nursing assistant charged after using credit card stolen from patient
Erin Zaranec reports: A local nursing assistant was charged with misuse of credit cards and four other counts after using a credit card she stole from a patient. Markita Hunter was seen in security video using a Chase Bank credit card that was stolen from a patient at University Hospitals, where she works. Read more on…
Alabama Man Indicted in Alleged $19 Million Stolen Identity Refund Fraud Scheme
A federal grand jury sitting in Montgomery, Alabama returned an indictment, which was unsealed, charging a Phenix City, Alabama resident with conspiring to file fraudulent refund claims, mail fraud, wire fraud and aggravated identity theft, announced Acting Deputy Assistant Attorney General Stuart M. Goldberg of the Justice Department’s Tax Division and Acting U.S. Attorney A….
Kansas ID theft suspects had 429 job applications
Today’s reminder about the need to secure and securely destroy PAPER records, too, comes to us from Kansas: A search warrant shows authorities are investigating two suspected identity thieves found with a box filled with hundreds of Dollar Tree job applications apparently obtained by going through trash containers in Wichita. The warrant was filed recently…
Dozens of Fresno Unified employees affected by data breach
Veronica Miracle reports: Three Fresno suspects, accused of living off other people’s money– investigators said they found Andrew Clement, Katie Whala, and Randall McKinney with troves of stolen personal information last month. […] “There was stolen mail, there were checks, there was a spreadsheet from the Unified School District– so this wasn’t just one item,”…