A press release yesterday announced that Henry Schein has been named a 2014 World’s Most Ethical Company by the Ethisphere Institute. Considering that I’ve raised questions about their marketing of Dentrix G5 as providing “encryption” and the fact that they wouldn’t send out individual letters to customers informing them that what providers purchased as incorporating…
Potential 7 Million Credit Card Details Leaked by “Anonymous Ukraine” (update2)
Lee J reports on DataLossDB: The last couple of weeks have seen tensions rising between Russia and Ukraine, and along with it an increase in computer crime. Sometime earlier this morning, a post allegedly by Anonymous Ukraine has claimed to have published “more than 800 million credit cards” by releasing four archives: Visa, Mastercard, American…
No violation of HIPAA in Monroeville, feds say
Kyle Lawson reports on a case involving Monroeville, Pennsylvania that I’ve followed on this blog over the past few years. As I had noted, although I thought there was a privacy violation, it wasn’t clear to me whether the services involved were HIPAA-covered entities. It turns out they weren’t. Lawson reports: [HHS’s] investigation found that…
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…
Southern California Man Found Guilty of Health Care Fraud and Aggravated Identity Theft for Role in $1.5 Million Medicare Fraud Scheme
A Southern California man who ran a durable medical equipment (DME) supply company has been found guilty by a federal jury in Los Angeles for his role in a $1.5 million Medicare fraud scheme. Vahe Tahmasian, 36, of Glendale, Calif., was found guilty on March 21, 2014, in U.S. District Court in the Central District…
U.S. notified 3,000 companies in 2013 about cyberattacks
Ellen Nakashima reports: Federal agents notified more than 3,000 U.S. companies last year that their computer systems had been hacked, White House officials have told industry executives, marking the first time the government has revealed how often it tipped off the private sector to cyberintrusions. The alerts went to firms large and small, from local…