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NM Medicaid members told about security breach (updated)

Posted on May 11, 2010 by Dissent

This article replaces an earlier article which had less detail: The New Mexico Human Services Department said Tuesday that about 9,600 members of its Salud! Medicaid plan and fee for service members might have had their personal information, including Social Security numbers, compromised. […] The potential compromise occurred on March 20 in Chicago when an…

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A failure to protect medical privacy

Posted on May 11, 2010 by Dissent

An editorial from the St. Petersburg Times: […] For more than half a year, strangers’ medical records jammed the home fax machine of Hudson resident Elizabeth Reed. The records described patients’ illnesses, lab results and prescription refill requests. The flow of records so disrupted the family’s home phone service that they resorted to using cell…

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Heartland breach expenses pegged at $140M — so far

Posted on May 10, 2010 by Dissent

Jaikumar Vijayan reports: The costs to Heartland Payment Systems Inc. from the massive data breach that it disclosed in January 2009 appear to be steadily adding up. Quarterly financial results released by Heartland last week show that the card payment processor has accrued $139.4 million in breach-related expenses. The figure includes a settlement totaling nearly…

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FL: Ex-teacher faces prison after pleading guilty to ID theft

Posted on May 10, 2010 by Dissent

Jon Burstein reports: A former high school teacher faces up to five years in prison after federal authorities say she pilfered the identities of past Broward School District students. Sheyla Diaz, 44, pleaded guilty on Friday to a single count of identity theft. She resigned in January from her job as a social sciences teacher…

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Former WellPoint employee sentenced

Posted on May 10, 2010 by Dissent

From the Associated Press, news that Angelique Mullings, a WellPoint employee, was sentenced to more than two years in prison for stealing the identities of about 40 health care professionals to buy cell phones: Authorities say Mullings worked for WellPoint, Inc., a licensee of Anthem/Blue Cross and Blue Shield. They said she had access to…

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Check cashing business throws out documents with Social Security numbers

Posted on May 9, 2010 by Dissent

Denae D’Arcy reports: A man made a disturbing find in North Knoxville Thursday evening. Hundreds, maybe thousands, of documents with personal information were dumped behind a shopping center. […] When a 6 News crew arrived at Fast Cash in a shopping center at 5100 Clinton Highway, they found documents scattered around a dumpster behind the…

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