John Chippa reports: A Justice of the Peace in Goderich has handed down the stiffest fine to date in Canada for a health privacy breach. A university student who was on an educational placement with the family health team in Central Huron has been ordered to pay a $20,000 fine and a $5,000 victim surcharge…
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Chinese police make 96 arrests in latest operation against personal data theft
Laura Zhou reports: Chinese police have arrested 96 suspects over data theft, in a case that exposes the challenges facing the country from a rampant trade in citizen’s private information, the state broadcaster reported. In one of the biggest operations of its kind, police raided sites in 14 provinces including Anhui, Henan and Liaoning, as…
Chadron Community Hospital discloses insider wrongdoing that went on for more than 5 years
Let’s start with their notice of the incident: Chadron Community Hospital and Health Services takes our obligation to protect our patients’ personal health information seriously. Regrettably, this notice concerns some of that information. On January 3, 2017, we learned that one of our staff members had accessed patient medical records outside of the employee’s job…
Has W-2 fraud overtaken healthcare as the most lucrative target for cyber-criminals?
Michael Bruemmer, a vice president with the Experian Data Breach Resolution group, poses a question about whether W-2 fraud has become the most lucrative target for criminals when attacking the healthcare sector. But the data he points to – some of which is based on the work DataBreaches.net is doing with Steve Ragan of Salted Hash,…
Newnan Woman Sentenced for Student Financial Aid Fraud; Used Patients’ Info
NEWNAN, Ga. – Andrea R. Williams has been sentenced to six years and seven months in federal prison for wire fraud and aggravated identity theft for using stolen identities to file dozens of fraudulent federal student aid applications. According to U.S. Attorney Horn, the charges and other information presented in court: From in or about…
Chicago Public Schools exposed confidential student information – again!
Lauren FitzPatrick reports: Confidential information about Chicago Public Schools students — including medical conditions and dates of birth — was kept on unsecured web documents that anyone could call up despite laws and CPS rules that are supposed to safeguard children’s privacy. Some of the personal, identifiable information involved requests for certain ongoing nursing services…