On the evening of July 11th, 69,246 patients of North East Medical Services (NEMS) in San Francisco had their protected health information stolen because an employee left their work laptop with unencrypted PHI in the trunk of their car. The theft was reported to the police and the employee reset the login and password remotely, but the theft…
Category: U.S.
NY: Restaurant server accused of stealing customers’ credit card info
WNYT reports: A restaurant server is accused of stealing the credit card numbers of customers, then using it to buy things for herself. Molly Dutrow, 20, now faces forgery and identity theft charges. All of the alleged thefts happened during the first two weeks of July. Police say Dutrow was working at Lillian’s Restaurant in…
CT: Advanced Radiology Consulting, LLC notifies patients of breach
Shelton, CT – July 24, 2015 – Although unaware of any actual or attempted misuse of patient protected health information, on July 24, 2015, Advanced Radiology Consulting, LLC (“ARC”) will provide written notice of a recent data event to a small subset of its patient population. ARC has established a confidential inquiry line that patients…
Lawsuit filed in Medical Informatics Engineering data breach (updated)
Sherry Slater reports: The ink was barely dry on patient notification letters when Medical Informatics Engineering Inc. was named the defendant in a lawsuit alleging that negligence contributed to the local company’s May data breach. James Young, a patient whose medical information was compromised, filed the paperwork Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Fort Wayne….
U.S. intel fears hundreds of secrets leaked in Hillary’s private emails
John Solomon and S. A. Miller report: The U.S. intelligence community is bracing for the possibility that former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton’s private email account contains hundreds of revelations of classified information from spy agencies and is taking steps to contain any damage to national security, according to documents and interviews Thursday. The top…
CA: Pharmacy Technician Suspended for Patient Data Theft
Pharmacy Times has more on the case of a pharmacy technician at a San Diego CVS store who was accused of stealing patient data for identity theft. It appears that CVS had no knowledge of the data theft until they were contacted by the Secret Service, who had raided her apartment: During an interview with CVS…