The compromise at web hosting firm E-dreamz, reported here earlier today, didn’t affect only Presbyterian Anesthesia Associates. According to Torie Wells, approximately 2,000 patients of Piedmont Healthcare were also affected: We were told that E-dreamz databases had been compromised and that credit card data of a number of our patients had been exposed,” said Gregory Guin,…
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Follow-up: Boca Raton Regional Hospital patient scheduler and co-conspirator plead guilty in tax refund fraud scheme
More on a case reported previously on this blog: Shalamar Major, 32, and Tanisha Wright, 27, both of Deerfield Beach, pled guilty on May 13 in connection with a tax refund scheme that used stolen social security and other personal identifying information to file on-line tax returns claiming fraudulent tax refunds from the IRS. More…
Notice Regarding Missing X-Rays for El Centro Regional Medical Center Patients
Could this breach be related to the one recently disclosed by Raleigh Orthopaedic Clinic? There are some obvious similarities, but neither entity names the third party vendor. The May 13 press release from ECRMC: EL CENTRO, Calif., May 13, 2013 (BUSINESS WIRE) — On March 22, 2013, El Centro Regional Medical Center (ECRMC) was notified…
Mass email by Dent Neurologic inadvertently breaches privacy of 10,200 patients
Melinda Miller and Stephen Watson report: Confidential information about more than 10,200 patients of Dent Neurologic Institute was inadvertently sent to more than 200 patients Monday in an email attachment. The personal information – including patients’ names and home addresses, their doctors’ names, last appointment dates and their email addresses – was contained on an…
Regional Medical Center in Memphis notifies 1,200 physical therapy patients after e-mail attachment error
The Regional Medical Center in Memphis (The MED) has disclosed a breach. Adam Hammond of WREG reports: The MED is alerting some patients who were treated at their outpatient facility that their personal information may have been accidentally sent out in one of three emails sent out by an employee. That information includes the social…
Notice to Indiana University Health Arnett patients regarding missing laptop
Indiana University Health Arnett, Inc. (“Arnett”) is committed to maintaining the privacy and security of the personal information provided to us. Regrettably, this notice concerns some of that information. On April 10, 2013, we learned that an employee’s password-protected unencrypted laptop was stolen from the employee’s car the day before. The White County Sheriff’s Office…