Reuters reports: U.S. hospital operator Community Health Systems Inc said it suspected personal data, including patient names and addresses, of about 4.5 million people were stolen by Chinese hackers from its computer network during April and June. The company said the data, considered protected under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, included patient names,…
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MI: Employee at medical office provided patient info for fraudulent purposes
Local4 in Michigan reports that an employee in a doctor’s office that is affiliated with the Detroit Medical Center has been charged with fraud for allegedly providing approximately eight billing records to a co-defendant in May under the promise that she would be paid $100 per useable profile. The billing sheets contain the names, birth…
NYU Langone Medical Center Notified Patients of Stolen Unencrypted Laptop Containing Patient Information
In July, I noted that NYU Langone Medical Center had notified 8,400 patients of a stolen computer containing their protected health information. At the time, I wasn’t aware that they had also reported a breach in June involving a stolen laptop containing protected health information. Today I stumbled across a copy of their notice on their…
NJ: Medical worker stole patient identities, committed credit card fraud – prosecutor
James Kleimann reports: A medical records coordinator at Cogent Healthcare in Hackensack stole the identities of multiple patients and used them to commit credit card fraud in late 2012, Bergen County prosecutors said Thursday. Latoyha S. Sapp, 37, of Wayne was being held on $35,000 bail in the Bergen County Jail after prosecutors charged her…
University of Miami reaches settlement in patient data breach lawsuit
A federal court in Florida has been asked to approve a proposed settlement involving the University of Miami Health System. The proposed settlement would resolve a lawsuit stemming from their disclosure (pdf) earlier this year that thousands of patients’ billing vouchers stored with an off-site storage vendor were missing. At the time of the breach notification, UM revealed…
Global hacking attack included 10,000 patient records at Chinese University
Danny Lee reports: Four of the city’s biggest internet service providers fell victim to an international cyberattack that also affected 10,000 patients’ health records held by Chinese University. Servers at PCCW, Netvigator, Hong Kong Broadband Network (HKBN) and Hutchison Global Communications were among more than half a million targeted globally. The hackers succeeded in the…