John Jarvis reports on disputed versions of a network issue that could have compromised patient information? No patients were ever notified, and those involved tell different stories about whether they were advised to notify patients or not: Patient information in the Morrow County emergency medical service and 911 systems was at risk of being compromised…
Historian’s Efforts To Research Civil War PTSD Thwarted By Privacy Law
Here we go again. Alden Bourne reports that Matt Warshauer, a history professor at Central Connecticut State University, has encountered privacy obstacles to researching Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder or associated conditions like Soldier’s Heart in past wars. […] Warshauer discovered Perkins in a patient casebook he was able to look at back in 2011. Soon after, the…
SEC Needs to Improve Controls over Financial Systems and Data – GAO Report
Highlights from a GAO report released yesterday: Although the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) had implemented and made progress in strengthening information security controls, weaknesses limited their effectiveness in protecting the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of a key financial system. For this system’s network, servers, applications, and databases, weaknesses in several controls were found, as…
Tax refund fraud scheme affecting health care professionals reported in multiple states
The Indiana State Medical Association (ISMA) has issued this e-report: Based on reports from physicians and accountants, the ISMA previously issued several email alerts about physician identity theft and tax fraud at the federal level. The ISMA has now learned the Indiana Department of Revenue (DOR) has been investigating identity theft and tax return scams…
GA: Former Certified Nursing Assistant and Co-Conspirators Sentenced to Prison for Identity Theft Tax Scheme
There’s an update to a breach previously noted on this blog: Kimberly Banks, Donalene Mosley and Arneshia Austin were sentenced today in Albany, Ga., to serve 192 months, 37 months and 21 months in prison, respectively, for crimes relating to filing fraudulent income tax returns using stolen identities. After a weeklong jury trial, Banks was…
Update: As many as 27,000 University of Pittsburgh Medical Center employees affected by data breach
Adam Smeltz and Luis Fábregas report another update to a breach affecting employees of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC). Personal information about as many as 27,000 UPMC workers may have been compromised in a data breach and identify theft scheme that the hospital system first confirmed in February, UPMC officials said Thursday. New…