Brent Hunsberger reports that Health Net has sent out corrected notifications following the discovery of missing drives in January: Health Net Inc. said a data breach discovered in January affected more people than originally thought and that it had erred in telling thousands of former and current members that their Social Security numbers were not…
Why the Proposed Massachusetts HIV Testing Bill Is Bad for Patients
Paul E. Sax, M.D. comments: As I’ve written about here multiple times, I’m not a big fan of the HIV testing law in our state. First, there’s the requirement for written informed consent, something that every state (except a couple) has wisely abandoned. Second, it’s more than a testing law — it’s also an HIV privacy law, which is…
40000 emails and passwords leaked from apniisp.com/
The following is the data base of Apniisp.com, one of the popular music sites in South Asia. This is just a preview of 4000 username-password, download the whole Data base of about 40,000 at https://www.mediafire.com/?zl6bb43k6huelbn PS- This website has been hacked before also but I couldnt find the Databaseon on the internet. So here it…
NC: VA worker sentenced for stealing vets’ identities
A Department of Veterans Affairs worker has been sentenced to 11 years in federal prison for stealing personal information from disabled North Carolina veterans to generate bogus tax returns. Michael Ray Woods, 48, of Fayetteville, was convicted in February of 12 counts of preparing false tax returns, 10 counts of wire fraud, 10 counts of…
HIPAA Auditor Involved in Own Data Breach
Dom Nicastro of Health Leaders Media has an item today about how KPMG, the company hired by OCR to implement the HITECH-mandated HIPAA compliance auditing plan, had its own data breach last year. That breach was covered at the time on PHIprivacy.net, here. Dom writes, in part: Asked if OCR considered the KPMG involvement on…
NC: VA worker sentenced for stealing vets' identities
A Department of Veterans Affairs worker has been sentenced to 11 years in federal prison for stealing personal information from disabled North Carolina veterans to generate bogus tax returns. Michael Ray Woods, 48, of Fayetteville, was convicted in February of 12 counts of preparing false tax returns, 10 counts of wire fraud, 10 counts of…