It’s easy to see how the new HITECH requirements are having an impact. Covered entities are not only notifying HHS of breaches affecting over 500 patients, but are posting notices on their web sites and often issuing press releases to help meet the notification requirements. Here’s a press release issued today by Dr. Ward Morris:…
Category: Theft
Aultman notifies 13,800 patients of stolen laptop
Aultman Health Foundation posted a notice on its web site on August 6 concerning a stolen laptop that says, in part: A password-protected laptop maintained by Aultman HealthCare in Your Home was stolen on June 7, 2010. A police report was filed at the time of the incident. The information on the laptop computer included…
Loma Linda offers help after desktops stolen in June
Darrell R. Santschi reports: Loma Linda University’s dental school has hired a credit monitoring and repair firm to help potential identity theft victims. Kroll Inc. will offer assistance to any of the 10,100 patients whose personal information was contained in three desktop computers stolen from the school the weekend of June 12, university spokesman Dustin…
Portland psychologists’ laptop stolen with confidential info (updated)
From KGW in Oregon: A Portland psychologist who has seen thousands of patients over the years put out a warning Tuesday night after his laptop computer was stolen. The computer contained social security numbers, names and diagnosis information. It was stolen from Dr. David Gostnell’s car last month. Some of his former patients were already…
Four sentenced in NJ for their role in $30 million international bank fraud and ID theft ring
Four of 17 defendants, all of whom were convicted of conspiring to engage in an international telemarketing and identity theft scheme to defraud financial institutions and tens of thousands of account holders out of millions of dollars through the unauthorized debit of customer bank accounts (the “Telemarketing and Identity Theft Conspiracy”), were sentenced by United…
WI: Former jailer to be sentenced in credit card theft case
From the I-didn’t-even-come-close-to-getting-away-with-it dept: A former jailer will soon find out whether she will spend some time behind bars. Michelle Arellano was charged in Chippewa County with stealing a credit card, belonging to an inmate, then racking up $2,400 in charges. […] Monday, Arellano pled no contest to a felony charge of identity theft to…