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Colorado notifies Medicaid patients of HIPAA breach

Posted on August 17, 2015 by Dissent

Denver, CO – The Department of Health Care Policy and Financing (the Department) announced today that protected health information was unintentionally disclosed in a recent mailing. Letters were mailed between May 25 and July 5, 2015 and contained protected health information (PHI) of individuals from 1,622 households. The problem was identified on July 1st when…

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Blue Cross Blue Shield in Maryland sued over alleged security breach

Posted on August 17, 2015 by Dissent

Shaun Zinck reports: Blue Cross Blue Shield is being sued over an alleged breach of security that led to the release of patients’ personal information. Pamela Chambliss and Scott Adamson filed the lawsuit on Aug. 6 in U.S. District Court in Maryland against CareFirst Inc., doing business as Blue Cross and Blue Shield. The breach…

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IRS: Hackers May Have Stolen Tax Information From Additional 220,000

Posted on August 17, 2015 by Dissent

Julianne Pepitone reports: The Internal Revenue Service revealed Monday that criminals potentially accessed tax information for a total of 338,000 taxpayers — triple the amount feared when the breach was first disclosed in May. The IRS had originally said that hackers potentially accessed information for 114,000 taxpayers via an online system. The agency did a further review and…

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OPM Hit With Another Data Breach Class Action By Judge

Posted on August 17, 2015 by Dissent

The plaintiff in one of the class action lawsuits filed against the government over the massive OPM databreach is a judge. Courtney Coren reports on McGarry v. Office of Personnel Management et al., Case No. 1:15-cv-01705, in the U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado. OPM, DHS, and Keypoint Government Solutions are named as defendants. Read more…

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Missing Link breach impacted 250,000?

Posted on August 17, 2015 by Dissent

Jeff Quackenbush has a piece in Business Journal. I’m not sure where he got his figures from, but he reports: A recent theft of personal and financial records on about a quarter-million winery customers via a data breach at a Calistoga-based direct-to-consumer sales and marketing software company is raising questions about common winery approaches to…

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Florida Highway Patrol trooper sues two Jacksonville cops, alleging they illegally looked up her information

Posted on August 16, 2015 by Dissent

Here we go again – cops behaving badly with databases. Andrew Panzati reports: After a Florida Highway Patrol trooper ticketed a Miami police officer for driving 120 mph, FDLE records showed that about 90 people across the state — including two Jacksonville police officers — looked up the trooper’s personal information using a police database…

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