For years, Congress and federal regulators have been raising concerns about FDA’s infosecurity after report of a hack in 2013. So while the FDA has been issuing lots of statements about securing medical devices and mobile apps, the GAO would like them to know that they need to do a better job on securing their own data: What…
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GA: Martin Army Community Hospital can’t individually notify 1,000 patients impacted by insider breach that began in 2011
Larry Gierer reports: All patients who received care through the Martin Army Community Hospital healthcare system are alerted that a possible HIPAA breach occurred at Fort Benning between January 2011 and December 2013. According to a news release on Sunday, the breach was discovered after the hospital was alerted of undetected criminal activity involving identity…
TN: Hutton Hotel notifying guests of breach that began in 2012
Hutton Hotel in Nashville is notifying guests of a that first began on September 23, 2012. In their notification, they write that after being alerted to a potential problem by their payment processor, their outside consultants determined that unknown individuals had been able to install a program on the payment processing system in September 2012. The program could have…
California CPA firm hacked to file fraudulent returns
On August 15, 2016, Wheeler & Egger, CPAs, LLP discovered a data security incident involving their firm and some of their clients whose 2015 tax returns were on Extension. After thorough investigation, they have discovered that the perpetrator(s) hacked into their system, and between August 3rd and 9th 2016, fraudulently filed 45 client tax returns. Letters were mailed to…
Hackers target University of Central Florida students
Matt Grant reports that more than 100 UCF students have had their debit and credit cards compromised after using them on campus. UCF does not yet know whether this is due to an wifi encryption issue connected to the payment processing. Read more on WESH.
Former Employee of Rhode Island Pain Clinic Charged in Connection with Fraudulent Billing Scheme
BOSTON – A former employee of a pain management clinic was charged Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Boston in connection with a scheme to falsify patient medical records in order to obtain payments from the Medicare program and commercial insurance companies. Moustafa Moataz Aboshady, 33, an Egyptian national residing in Lake Forest, Calif., was indicted…