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OR: Northwest Primary Care Notifies 5,372 Patients of Insider Data Theft

Posted on December 11, 2015 by Dissent

Northwest Primary Care (NWPC) is notifying certain patients about a security incident involving information that was stolen by a former employee.  On October 13, 2015, NWPC was informed by law enforcement that the employee stole patient names, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, and credit card numbers.  The theft occurred between April 2013 and December 2013.  The employee…

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Employee error most likely cause of data breaches among in-house legal counsel, new report says

Posted on December 11, 2015 by Dissent

More than half of in-house legal counsel report that their companies are increasing spending on cybersecurity, while one-third state that their companies have experienced a data breach, according to a new report from the Washington, DC-based Association of Corporate Counsel (ACC) Foundation. Read more on CanadianUnderwriter.ca. The report will cost you $475 (yeah, right, I’ll…

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Man who hacked St. Louis County police union gets 18 months

Posted on December 11, 2015 by Dissent

Oops. I think I missed this one the other day. Robert Patrick reports: A man who helped launch a cyberattack that disabled a St. Louis County police union website last year was sentenced to 18 months in prison Monday. Justin E. Payne, 33, disabled the St. Louis County Police Association website a year ago by overwhelming it…

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A Department of Veterans Affairs Nurse Convicted of Falsifying Medical Records and Computer Fraud

Posted on December 11, 2015 by Dissent

Federal prosecutors had charged a former employee of the Miami VA medical center (the  Bruce W. Carter VA Medical Center) under the federal hacking statute as part of charging him for altering a patient’s records to cover up deficiencies in care. A former Department of Veterans Affairs employee pled guilty today to destroying, altering and falsifying records and committing computer…

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High-Risk Security Vulnerabilities Identified During Reviews of Information System General Controls at Three California Managed-Care Organizations Raise Concerns About the Integrity of Systems Used To Process Medicaid Claims

Posted on December 11, 2015 by Dissent

From the Office of the Inspector General of the U.S. Dept. of Health & Human Services: We summarized the high-risk security vulnerabilities that we identified as audit findings in our previous reviews of information system general controls at three California Medi Cal managed-care organizations (MCOs). We identified 74 high-risk security vulnerabilities in the information system…

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1,500 patients impacted by laptop theft

Posted on December 10, 2015 by Dissent

Another physician has reported that a stolen laptop contained patient information. Carolyn B Lyde, MD, of Dermatology Center of Lewisville, Texas, notified HHS on November 30th that 1,500 patients were affected. There is no statement on their web site at this time and a Google search isn’t turning up any notices.

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