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NYC: Dental Receptionist Accused of Stealing Personal Identifying Information of More Than 250 Patients

Posted on February 5, 2015 by Dissent

Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus R. Vance, Jr., today announced the indictment of five individuals – DEVIN BAZILE, 30, SHARNIQKWA DUKES, 24, AHMEEN EVANS, 26, JOSHUA HAUGHTON, 28, and ANNIE VUONG, 27 – for using the stolen personal identifying information of approximately 200 victims to steal hundreds of thousands of dollars from Barclaycard. Following a two-and-a-half-year-long…

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Anthem Attack Investigators See Signs of Chinese Hackers

Posted on February 5, 2015 by Dissent

And so it begins.

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Bill Passed in Maryland Aims to Ensure Medical Privacy

Posted on February 5, 2015 by Dissent

WHAG reports: Even confidential medical records may not be completely confidential. Currently, insurance policy holders have access to patient care information via an insurance bill that is mailed home, which can put many people who are in abusive situations at risk. […] But as of February 3, the Maryland General Assembly updated Bill 790, making…

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CA: Millions of DNA samples stored in warehouse worry privacy advocates

Posted on February 5, 2015 by Dissent

Patrick McGreevy reports: Privacy advocates are calling for more safeguards related to a state collection of DNA samples from 16 million Californians in a nondescript government warehouse in the Bay Area. The biobank holds blood taken with the prick of a heel from almost every baby born in California for the last three decades. It…

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OCR Updates Breach Report Web Portal — Changes Could Impact Annual Breach Reports

Posted on February 5, 2015 by Dissent

BakerHostetler’s Data Privacy Monitor has a write-up on the changes in HHS/OCR’s data breach tool and online submission of breaches. The team is working on both sites, and I’ve reported a bug to them with a request for certain features, but as Data Privacy Monitor notes, the breach submission form now requires more specific information/break…

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Health insurance giant Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield discloses breach that could affect tens of millions of customers and employees (Update2)

Posted on February 4, 2015 by Dissent

Following the disclosure by Community Health Systems  in an SEC filing that they suspected Chinese hackers were responsible for the theft of 4.5 million patients’ information,  the FBI sent out a “Flash” warning to alert the  the healthcare sector that it was being targeted by hackers.  It was the second warning they had issued in a period…

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