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Stolen billing vendor’s laptop held patient info from 8 medical facilities

Posted on May 3, 2016 by Dissent

EqualizeRCM Services  is a vendor providing billing and collection services to healthcare providers.  In compliance with HIPAA, it has Business Associate contracts with its clients, who provide it with the information needed to fulfill its functions. The firm has headquarters in Austin, Texas, and offices in Houston and Washington, D.C. On February 29, EqualizeRCM learned that a…

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Settlement reached in lawsuit after laptop stolen from Edmonton Medicentre

Posted on May 1, 2016 by Dissent

Bill Mah reports that a lawsuit filed after a 2013 Medicentres breach has settled. The incident involved a laptop with information on 620,000 Albertans being stolen from the clinic. The laptop belonged to an employee of their IT consultant, AbleIT Inc.  The Privacy Commissioner would later rule that the clinic had failed to adequately protect their…

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Vibrant Body Wellness notifies patients after burglar steals hardware with PHI

Posted on April 29, 2016 by Dissent

Seen on Vibrant Body Wellness: We were robbed! Literally. Yes, it’s sad but true — our office at Vibrant Body Wellness was broken into during the weekend of March 5th to March 8th.  Things were stolen and no one was physically injured.  We are grateful for that, and have been sorting through the violation and…

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UK: West Dunbartonshire Council warned of court action by ICO over data protection failures

Posted on April 28, 2016 by Dissent

A Scottish council has been rapped by the regulator for repeatedly failing to train staff around data protection. West Dunbartonshire Council were told to implement training on several occasions, as well as being advised to put in place a policy around home working. But their failure to do so ultimately contributed to a data breach…

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IE: Details of more than 100 Cork households stolen from census enumerator’s car

Posted on April 27, 2016 by Dissent

Joe Leogue reports that the Central Statistics Office has notified the affected households, but says it is unlikely the information stolen would be of interest “to anyone other than census staff”. A spokesperson for the CSO said the information was contained in an Enumerator Record Book (ERB) which was stolen from a car at the Red…

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Former PwC employees on trial in Lux Leaks breach and scandal

Posted on April 26, 2016 by Dissent

There’s a new development in an insider breach that created shock waves internationally As I had noted back in 2014, a former PricewaterhouseCoopers employee charged with copying and leaking files to the media (the “Lux Leaks” case) had suggested that he wasn’t the only employee involved.  Now Fraser Simpson reports that today, two former PwC employees…

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