Kevin Krause reports: Federal authorities say a former Parkland Memorial Hospital employee illegally used information from thousands of patients to defraud Medicare and Medicaid. Viju Mathew, 49, of Garland has agreed to plead guilty to a federal fraud charge and is scheduled to go before a judge later this month to formally enter the plea….
USIS’s late notification? (updated)
Readers may recall that US Investigations Services, LLC, the contractor who conducted personnel background checks for the Department of Homeland Security, detected a hack in June. The breach affected 27,000 DHS employees. For some reason, USIS is now first sending a copy of a notification letter to the California Attorney General’s web site and to the New…
Montgomery Obstetrics & Gynecology notifies patients of breach
A statement from Montgomery Obstetrics & Gynecology: BLACKSBURG, Va., (October 31, 2014) – Montgomery Obstetrics & Gynecology (Montgomery OB-GYN) has notified patients of a breach of some personal patient-protected health information. On Sept. 11, Montgomery OB-GYN learned that an individual obtained access to multiple patient charts and other medical records that were removed from the practice….
MN: Data breach suspected at Freeborn County Sheriff’s Office
Sarah Stultz reports: Freeborn County administration is investigating a suspected data breach within law enforcement, according to Administrator John Kluever. He said he and other information technology staff are looking into the possibility that someone was unnecessarily viewing open investigation files and disseminating parts of those files in the public. He declined to comment on…
Update to Dallas Fire-Rescue Breach
There’s a small update to the Dallas Fire-Rescue breach involving missing laptops. The loss was reported to HHS, who added it to their public breach tool today. Dallas reported that the (first) loss occurred October 5, 2011, which is later than what was originally reported, but they also reported that 1,000 patients were impacted.
FL: Confidential Documents from Henry & Rilla White Foundation Exposed in Dumpster
WJCB reports: Some clients of a longtime troubled youth program in North Central Florida have had their personal information compromised. It started when TV20 received information of confidential personal documents being improperly disposed of in Bronson. When we visited the site, we found two dumpters filled and documents sitting on top of a pile of…