Ugh. The Daily Echo reports: A Hampshire doctors’ surgery has apologised after confidential data about more than 100 patients was made public. A major IT glitch resulted in information about patients at the Fordingbridge Surgery, including their names, addresses and NHS numbers, accidentally appearing online. A house-hunter was researching a property in the area when an Internet…
HealthTexas Provider Network also affected by phishing scheme
So I had no sooner finished posting the Baylor phishing incident in Texas, where I questioned whether that phishing incident might be related to a successful phishing attempt involving physicians in the Franciscan Medical Group, when I discovered a third phishing incident that also occurred on January 23. This one involved the HealthTexas Provider Network…
TX: Baylor Regional Medical Center at Plano notifies patients after physicians fall for phishing attempt
Baylor Regional Medical Center at Plano reported a breach to HHS that affected 1,981 patients. The incident, which occurred on January 23, was coded on the breach tool as a “Hacking/IT Incident” with the location of the information identified as e-mail. A notice on Baylor’s site explains that this was a phishing incident: Notice to…
PA: Former Crozer-Chester Medical Center pleads guilty to stealing patient info for tax refund fraud scheme
There’s an update to a breach previously noted on this blog in March, 2013. John George recently reported: A 50-year-old Brookhaven, Pa., man pleaded guilty today to stealing hospital patients’ identities as part of a tax fraud scheme. Reynaldo Estrada pleaded guilty today to one count each of conspiracy to commit identity theft, aggravated identity theft,…
AU: Prescription records found strewn in street after contractor's employee forgets to shred first, then haul
Rex Martinich reports: Hamilton’s James Dean Pharmacy has resolved the issue with its secure document disposal contractor after a number of prescription receipts were left beside Digby Rd earlier last month. The documents were strewn across 30 metre stretch of road on April 24 and the contractor responsible said the documents were retrieved on the…
OH: H&R Block Customer Records Stolen, Used By Fraudsters
ABC22 reports: Police are investigating several reports of identity theft stemming from information stolen from H&R Block records. The information has been used, Huber Heights police say, to open credit card accounts and make Internet purchases. Police and H&R Block say they have sent out hundreds of letters to people potentially affected. Read more on…