Dawn Brooks reported this earlier this month: Memorial Hermann Wednesday announced an incident involving the disclosure of protected health information to select primary care physicians. The company said the information disclosed was limited to the member’s demographic information, that no medical information was disclosed. A Memorial Hermann employee on May 16 reported potential improper use…
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Citibank IT guy deliberately wiped routers, shut down 90% of firm’s networks across America
Graham Cluley writes: It was just after 6pm on December 23, 2013, and Lennon Ray Brown, a computer engineer at the Citibank Regents Campus in Irving, Texas, was out for revenge. Earlier in the day, Brown – who was responsible for the bank’s IT systems – had attended a work performance review with his supervisor….
Former Pharmacy Owner Sentenced to Prison for Stealing from Charity
Katie Eder has a follow-up on a case first reported in the media in January The former owner of a pharmacy in Lexington, Kentucky, has been sentenced to more than 6 years in prison for stealing $1.1 million from a charity called Chronic Disease Fund. Adam K. Sloan, 37, admitted to using personal information from customers…
MN: Rare data breach claim against a county settled for $1M
Noell Wolfgram Evans reports: Hundreds of Mille Lacs County, Minn. residents went to bed on July 1 with a million reasons to feel a little better. On that day, a settlement was announced between residents and Mille Lacs County and Mikki Jo Peterick, a former child support investigator for the Mille Lacs County Department of Family Services,…
Unauthorized employee accessed AnMed Health patient records, release says
Carla Field reports: A health care revenue company says one of its employees looked at nearly two dozen patient records without authorization. Cardon Outreach does contract work for AnMed Health, and has employees on site at the hospital. AnMed said in a release that a Cardon Outreach employee opened 22 patient files without authorization, including…
OR: Providence Health & Services notifying 5,400 patients of long-running insider breach
For reasons I can’t begin to fathom, this one was sitting in ‘drafts’ and never got posted. Oops. AP reports: Providence Health & Services in Oregon is notifying about 5,400 current and former patients that a former employee may have improperly accessed their patient records. Providence said in a statement Friday that it learned of…