It appears that Aventura Hospital and Medical Center in Florida is notifying additional patients of a previously disclosed breach involving patient information. On February 27, the hospital submitted a breach notification to HHS indicating that 686 patients were affected by a breach involving unauthorized access/disclosure of PHI. The breach report was submitted the same week a…
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Chicago woman to plead in ID theft case involving patient information
Here’s the latest on a case previously noted on this site. Teresa Auch Schultz reports: A Chicago woman claims her boss used her Gary business to help run an identity theft ring that stole information from clients at a medical center. Montrease Young detailed her own role in the theft, as well as the role…
MS: Gulfport woman accused in identity theft of hospice patient
There needs to be a special place in Hell for those who take advantage of the seriously ill or disabled. I don’t know if the accused did what she’s accused of, but whoever did should pay dearly for creating stress for a dying woman. Robin Fitzgerald reports: A Gulfport woman is accused of using a…
Children’s National Health System notified 18,000 patients after employees fell for phishing scheme
From the Children’s National Medical Center web site: At Children’s National Health System (Children’s National), protecting the security and confidentiality of patient personal and medical information is of the utmost importance. Regrettably, this notice concerns an incident involving some of that information. On December 26, 2014, Children’s National learned that certain employee email accounts had…
As threatened, Rex Mundi dumps Labio patients’ diagnostic test results
As they had threatened to do if Labio did not pay them €20,000, the hacker collective known as Rex Mundi has started dumping/disclosing identifiable patient data. The dump was announced on Twitter by the @RexMundi2015 account. DataBreaches.net confirmed that the records appear to be the results of lab tests performed on patients whose names, dates…
Paramedic Fired for Taking Pictures with Dying Patients
Waqas writes: … Tatiana Kulikova is nothing like a compassionate paramedic. The 25 year-old Tatiana has been fired by health officers after viewing the pictures she posted online taken in the back of an ambulance. There are several utterly sickening selfies posted by Tatiana. In one of the images, the Russian blonde can be seen…