Blue Cross Blue Shield of Illinois (BCBS) uses a vendor, Dane Street, to provide peer to peer reviews of insurance claims that are denied. On May 10, Dane Street notified BCBS that on April 9, law enforcement had notified them that a doctor who had been providing peer to peer reviews for them was not…
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Facebook bug set 14 million users’ sharing settings to public
Heather Kelly reports: For a period of four days in May, about 14 million Facebook users around the world had their default sharing setting for all new posts set to public, the company revealed Thursday. The bug, which affected those users from May 18 to May 22, occurred while Facebook was testing a new feature….
Atlanta officials reveal worsening effects of cyber attack
Reuter reports that the March 22 ransomware attack on Atlanta was even worse than they had let on. More than a third of the 424 software programs used by the city have been thrown offline or partially disabled in the incident, Atlanta Information Management head Daphne Rackley said. Nearly 30 percent of the affected applications…
Feds say they caught ‘Vigilance’ hacker who broke into several state databases
Chao Xiong reports: A young hacker reeling from the Philando Castile case and the acquittal of the officer who killed him broke into several state databases last year and boasted about his exploits. “An innocent man is dead, while a guilty man is free,” the hacker, known as “Vigilance” tweeted in part last year. The…
UPDATED: Dignity Health units disclose breaches in Arizona, Nevada, and California affecting more than 60,000 patients
Last month, Dignity Health reported breaches to HHS that involved three of their hospitals in Nevada: Dignity Health St. Rose Dominican Hospitals – San Martin (1764 patients); Dignity Health St. Rose Dominican Hospitals – Siena (2078 patients), and Dignity Health St. Rose Dominican Hospitals-DeLima (2174 patients). The incident involved the hospitals providing documentation to an unnamed local…
Medical records for more than 600 patients stolen from Moran Eye Center
Paighten Harkins reports: Someone stole a laptop computer and a hard drive from the John A. Moran Eye Center, compromising the medical records of more than 600 of its patients. The theft occurred April 3, when someone took the laptop from locked storage at the center, 65 Mario Capecci Drive, according to a news release….