If you’re relatively new to medical privacy breach cases, you may not know about a 2008 case involving insider snooping concerning the care and death of news anchor, Anne Pressly. You can find previous coverage of the breach and case linked from here, but the short version is that the three being sued have previously pleaded guilty to misdemeanor…
Category: U.S.
Cost of a Breach: Forensics and Notification
Protenus, who provide software to monitor, detect, and reduce insider mis-steps such as snooping and other egregious wrongdoing, has been writing a series of posts on the cost of a breach. In this week’s installment, they looked at the costs of forensics and notification. Considering I’ve recently been blogging about entities that don’t have insurance for breaches, some…
Cuban Man Pleads Not Guilty to US Hospital ID Theft Charges
Joe Mandak of AP has an update to the prosecution of Yoandy Perez Llanes for his role in a stolen identity tax refund fraud scheme that used patient information hacked from the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center in 2014: A Cuban national pleaded not guilty Friday to charges he conspired to file 900 phony federal tax…
The Outer Banks Hospital alerts former Eastern Carolina Cardiovascular patients of lost identity and medical info
Another entry for the “Why is this still happening in 2016?” collection. Think long and hard – and then think harder – about whether you should be using thumb drives to transfer unencrypted protected health information. Rob Morris reports: Personal data for patients over a period of 12 years might be at risk after two…
Newkirk Products, Inc. Provides Update to Notice of Data Breach
From Newkirk, notice that another health insurer was also affected by the previously reported breach: Newkirk Products, Inc. (“Newkirk”), a service provider that issues healthcare ID cards for health insurance plans, today provided an update on its previously announced cyber security incident. Symphonix Health Insurance, a client of DST Health Solutions, Inc., is also identified…
Malware Infected All Eddie Bauer Stores in U.S., Canada
Brian Krebs reports: Clothing store chain Eddie Bauer said today it has detected and removed malicious software from point-of-sale systems at all of its 350+ stores in North America, and that credit and debit cards used at those stores during the first six months of 2016 may have been compromised in the breach. The acknowledgement comes nearly…