Sherri Lonon reports: Hillsborough County Aging Services has notified about 650 clients about a possible breach of protected health information that occurred in 2011. The potential breach was brought to the county’s attention in December 2016 by a former employee. According to the county, the possible breach occurred in March 2011 when an employee of…
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Bend medical billing employee arrested in ID thefts
KTVZ reports that a woman who worked at Desert Orthopedics in Bend, Oregon was arrested last month and charged with theft and identity theft for stealing and misusing some patients’ financial information. The case against Karleigh Kelly,36, arose last month, when Bend police got a report of fraudulent activity on a Redmond resident’s account, said Bend…
Fulton County clinic dumps sensitive medical records in plain sight
Dante Renzulli reports: A Fulton County clinic is caught dumping medical records in a place where identity thieves could easily get to them. On Thursday, CBS46 discovered the dumpster sitting right in front of the South Fulton Mental Heath Center contained hundreds of medical records. We didn’t even have to come in the middle of the night. CBS46 reporter, Dante Renzulli,…
NSA Contractor Could Face 200 Years in Prison for Massive Breach
Elias Groll reports: U.S. prosecutors unveiled an indictment Wednesday detailing what may amount to the largest data breach in the history of the National Security Agency — an archive of classified material that may total more than 500 million pages. The incident is a black eye on the secretive spy agency’s attempt to crack down on…
Cn: Jail sentences for selling data on 200,000 newborns
Zhang Ningning reports: Eight people involved in stealing, selling and buying information of more than 200,000 newborns have been sentenced for infringing citizens’ personal information. The Pudong New Area People’s Court said yesterday that the defendants included two former employees of the city’s Center for Disease Control and Prevention. The eight were sentenced from seven to…
Multnomah County notified 1,700 patients after discovering employee was forwarding emails to personal account
From Multnomah County, Oregon: January 20, 2017 On August 24, 2012, a Health Department employee began automatically forwarding all emails received in the employee’s county email account to a personal Google email account not maintained by the county. Some of these emails included protected health information (PHI) subject to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability…