Paul Bass reports: Police are looking into a report of a terminated city employee possibly accessing other people’s private personal information from a government computer she took home. The incident allegedly took place at the city health department last Friday. It involved a woman whom the health department had hired as an epidemiologist. She was…
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Marin electronic medical record system hacked, ransom paid
Richard Halstead reports: Marin Medical Practices Concepts, a Novato company that provides medical billing and electronic medical records services to many Marin physicians, had its computer system hacked and paid a ransom to regain access to its own data. There is “no evidence” that any patient data were compromised, according to a company official. As…
WI: Janesville Pharmacist Charged with Health Care Fraud & Identity Theft
Madison, Wis. – John W. Vaudreuil, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Mark Johnson, 55, Janesville, Wis., was arrested without incident in Janesville, by agents from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the U.S. Postal Inspection Service, with assistance from the Janesville Police Department. Johnson will make…
Hack of former DST business exposes Blue Cross Blue Shield member info
This may turn out to be one of the biggest healthcare sector breaches of the year. Kansas City Business Journals reports: Newkirk Products Inc. reported a security breach of personal information for health insurance ID cards, including those for Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas City. However, Newkirk said in a Friday release, the breach did not…
Nordic Consulting Partners email gaffe exposes PHI
External counsel for Nordic Consulting Partners has notified the NH Attorney General’s Office of a breach: This Firm represents Nordic Consulting Partners, Inc. (“Nordic”) in connection with a situation where an email with the wrong attachment was inadvertently sent out to current and former Nordic employees. The attachment contained the personal information of the recipients…
Extortion demand on Athens Orthopedic Clinic escalates as patient data is dumped
On June 26, DataBreaches.net reported that several databases with patient information had allegedly been hacked and put up for sale on the dark net by hackers calling themselves TheDarkOverlord (TDO). This site subsequently identified one of the entities as the Athens Orthopedic Clinic in Georgia, and contacted them to alert them that it appeared that…