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OH: Information on some Geauga Medical Center patients improperly accessed

Posted on March 12, 2016 by Dissent

Andrew Cass reports: A former University Hospitals employee improperly accessed medical information of 677 patients at UH Geauga Medical Center, including personal information, according to a news release from UH. The information that may have been accessed includes names, dates of birth, medical record numbers and health information related to medications. According to the release,…

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Karmanos Cancer Center discloses lost flash drive contained patient info

Posted on March 12, 2016 by Dissent

It’s 2016. Why are people still mailing unencrypted flash drives with protected health information? This should be an automatic monetary penalty from OCR. It’s not, but it should be by now.  Fox47 in Detroit reports that the Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Center is notifying 2,808 patients and family members after they lost an unencrypted flash drive…

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Former Healthcare Employee Indicted for Involvement in Stolen Identity Tax Refund Fraud Scheme and Unauthorized Disclosure of Patient Information

Posted on March 11, 2016 by Dissent

Another one of those all-too-infrequent criminal cases for violations of HIPAA, tacked on to the usual charges…. A Montgomery, Alabama resident self-surrendered earlier today after she was indicted March 3 on one count of multi-object conspiracy to commit identity theft and wire fraud, two counts of possessing 15 or more unauthorized access devices, two counts…

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EXCLUSIVE: One month later, some south Florida confidential records databases still not secured (UPDATED)

Posted on March 11, 2016 by Dissent

Almost one month after confidential records of thousands of south Florida law enforcement officials and judges was hacked and dumped online, some of the hacked databases are still not secured, the individual who claims to have hacked them tells DataBreaches.net. Updated March 14: Dougan informs DataBreaches.net that the FBI just raided his house. More on this…

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Hackers Claim Breach Of Ku Klux Klan’s Security Company, Staminus (update2)

Posted on March 11, 2016 by Dissent

Thomas Fox-Brewster reports: A website run by the Ku Klux Klan has been downed as part of what appears to be a significant breach of its host and security provider Staminus. The company, which promises to protect users from distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks, was exposed by a crew going by the name of FTA,…

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Plaintiffs Use Privacy Pledge Against Insurer in Data Breach Claim

Posted on March 11, 2016 by Dissent

Armeen Mistry and Matthew Siegel of Cozen O’Connor write about a lawsuit over a data breach in 2014 that I don’t remember ever hearing about before.  Whether plaintiffs will be able to show injury is down the road. For now, they survived a motion to dismiss: On February 23, an Illinois federal court denied a motion to dismiss a…

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