It may seem like old news to you by now, but some patients affected by a third-party breach at R-C Healthcare are first finding out about it now. As reported previously on this site, R-C Healthcare had been notified by Bon Secours on June 14 that files with 655,000 of its patients’ records were exposed. The exposure…
Category: ID Theft
NY: Corinth pharmacist used customer ID to steal opioid
Times Union reports: A Saratoga County pharmacist was arrested Monday after she assumed a customer’s identity in order to steal hydrocodone, the Saratoga County Sheriff’s Office said Mary B. Murphy, 48, of Ballston Spa, was charged with second-degree forgery and first-degree identity theft and falsifying a business record. Read more on Times Union.
Ex-Arkansas hospital orderly sentenced for identity theft
AP reports: A Texas man has been sentenced to two years in prison for theft and for stealing the identities of patients at an Arkansas hospital where he was an orderly. Federal court records show 28-year-old Sir John Ashley Holliday of Dallas was sentenced Thursday in U.S. District Court in Little Rock after pleading guilty in May…
GA: Martin Army Community Hospital can’t individually notify 1,000 patients impacted by insider breach that began in 2011
Larry Gierer reports: All patients who received care through the Martin Army Community Hospital healthcare system are alerted that a possible HIPAA breach occurred at Fort Benning between January 2011 and December 2013. According to a news release on Sunday, the breach was discovered after the hospital was alerted of undetected criminal activity involving identity…
California CPA firm hacked to file fraudulent returns
On August 15, 2016, Wheeler & Egger, CPAs, LLP discovered a data security incident involving their firm and some of their clients whose 2015 tax returns were on Extension. After thorough investigation, they have discovered that the perpetrator(s) hacked into their system, and between August 3rd and 9th 2016, fraudulently filed 45 client tax returns. Letters were mailed to…
Former Employee of Rhode Island Pain Clinic Charged in Connection with Fraudulent Billing Scheme
BOSTON – A former employee of a pain management clinic was charged Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Boston in connection with a scheme to falsify patient medical records in order to obtain payments from the Medicare program and commercial insurance companies. Moustafa Moataz Aboshady, 33, an Egyptian national residing in Lake Forest, Calif., was indicted…