Reuters reports: U.S. hospital operator Community Health Systems Inc said it suspected personal data, including patient names and addresses, of about 4.5 million people were stolen by Chinese hackers from its computer network during April and June. The company said the data, considered protected under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, included patient names,…
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Iron Mountain employees suspected of stealing, selling old X-rays files for silver
Courtney Perkes reports: Orthopaedic Specialty Institute Medical Group said that 742 boxes of X-rays of its patients went missing from an Iron Mountain Record Management storage facility in the Inland Empire. Police were called and the storage company concluded that two employees had melted down the X-rays to collect the silver. The medical group said…
MI: Employee at medical office provided patient info for fraudulent purposes
Local4 in Michigan reports that an employee in a doctor’s office that is affiliated with the Detroit Medical Center has been charged with fraud for allegedly providing approximately eight billing records to a co-defendant in May under the promise that she would be paid $100 per useable profile. The billing sheets contain the names, birth…
NYU Langone Medical Center Notified Patients of Stolen Unencrypted Laptop Containing Patient Information
In July, I noted that NYU Langone Medical Center had notified 8,400 patients of a stolen computer containing their protected health information. At the time, I wasn’t aware that they had also reported a breach in June involving a stolen laptop containing protected health information. Today I stumbled across a copy of their notice on their…
NJ: Medical worker stole patient identities, committed credit card fraud – prosecutor
James Kleimann reports: A medical records coordinator at Cogent Healthcare in Hackensack stole the identities of multiple patients and used them to commit credit card fraud in late 2012, Bergen County prosecutors said Thursday. Latoyha S. Sapp, 37, of Wayne was being held on $35,000 bail in the Bergen County Jail after prosecutors charged her…
Ohio hospital responds after privacy breach allegations
Natalie Tendall When you go to the hospital you expect your private health information to be kept private. But 2 NEWS Investigates uncovered a lawsuit by two local women that alleges they repeatedly had the privacy of their health information violated by employees at Kettering Health Network, also known as Kettering Adventist Healthcare. Read more…