Kawana Brown, 36, of West Palm Beach, pled guilty last week for her participation in a wide-ranging identity theft scheme. Specifically, Brown pled guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud, in violation of 18 U.S.C. ‘ 1349 (Count 1), three counts of wire fraud, in violation of 18 U.S.C. ‘ 1343 (Counts…
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KY: UK HealthCare warns 1,079 patients after laptop with their info stolen from Talyst employee
LEX18 reports: UK HealthCare [University of Kentucky HealthCare] is notifying more than 1,000 patients about a breach of protected health information. Officials say someone stole a password protected lap-top owned by a business partner of the hospital. They say that laptop contains confidential information about current and former patients. Read more on LEX18 A statement…
Hospital's missing data drive contains info on child patients
Scott Powers reports: A computer flash drive containing limited patient information on 586 children treated at Orlando Health’s Arnold Palmer Medical Center has been misplaced and is being treated as a data security breach. The information includes last names, assigned medical record numbers, dates of birth, gestational ages, birth weights, dates of hospitalizations, and in some…
Update: Sutherland Healthcare Solutions breach affected over 220,000 patients, and counting (update1)
Well, I tried to warn Sutherland Healthcare Solutions that they shouldn’t let their breach dribble out and stay in the news cycle, but they declined to be more transparent. So now we have yet more news about their recent breach that affected more than 168,000 patients of Los Angeles County departments of Health Services and Public Health as well as an…
Marian Regional Medical Center notifies patients whose files were sent to the wrong insurance plan
Marian Regional Medical Center (part of Dignity Health) recently notified patients after electronic files with “limited patient information” was sent to the wrong contracted health insurance plan during the first week of March. The agent who received it promptly notified MRMC. According to the letter sent to patients on March 13, the file information included…
Fresenius Medical Care notifies dialysis patients of missing USB drive
In December, Fresenius Medical Care of North America (FMCNA) discovered that a USB drive with patient information was missing from their Robinwood Dialysis Center in Hagerstown, Maryland. The drive had been attached to a computer in the dialysis center. The information on the missing drive varied across patients, but included the patient’s name plus one or…