The owner of a New Orleans company that defrauded Medicare of more than $3.3 million was sentenced today to 80 months in prison for directing the scheme. Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite of the Eastern District of Louisiana, Special Agent in Charge Jeffrey…
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Four years later, case still open in SC Dept. of Revenue data breach
Tim Smith reports: Four years after South Carolina’s tax agency suffered the worst data breach in state history, 5 million attempts are made each week to gain unauthorized access to state government computers, which hold vast amounts of personal data belonging to taxpayers, employees and members of the public. […] Four years later, the…
Valley Anesthesiology and Pain Consultants Notifying 882,590 Patients PLUS all Employees and Providers of Security Incident
If you can’t prove there was no access, the presumption is that it’s a reportable breach. Today, Valley Anesthesiology and Pain Consultants (VAPC) announced that it is addressing a security incident involving certain patient, provider and employee information. VAPC is providing notice to approximately 882,590 patients, and all current and former employees and providers, who…
Bon Secours notifies 655,000 patients that vendor error exposed patient info on Internet
Bon Secours Health System, Inc. (“Bon Secours”) and its affiliates are committed to maintaining the privacy and security of our patient information. This notice is to inform our patients of an incident involving one of our vendor’s handling of some patients’ information. On June 14, 2016, Bon Secours discovered that files containing patient information inadvertently…
LinkedIn suffers huge bot attack that steals members’ personal data
Ethan Baron reports: Data thieves used a massive “botnet” against professional networking site LinkedIn and stole member’s personal information, a new lawsuit reveals. The Mountain View firm filed the federal suit this week in an attempt to uncover the perpetrators. “LinkedIn members populate their profiles with a wide range of information concerning their professional lives, including summaries (narratives…
Proposed class action over CareFirst data breach dismissed
Brendan Pierson reports: A federal judge has dismissed a proposed class action over a 2015 cyberattack against health insurance company CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield that compromised the data of about 1.1 million people. U.S. District Judge Christopher Cooper in Washington, D.C. ruled Wednesday that the CareFirst policyholders who brought the lawsuit had not shown that they…