Another case involving medical identity theft. Frank Mustac reports: A Grand Jury indicted a 32-year-old Hampton woman on charges connected with using the name and Social Security number of someone else to get treatment at Somerset Medical Center and to obtain Percocet pills, an Oxycodone-type medication, the Somerset County Prosecutor Office announced yesterday. Read more…
Patient data stolen from Philadelphia’s Family Planning Council
Robert Moran reports: The Family Planning Council in Philadelphia made public Friday that a computer storage device containing the personal and medical records of about 70,000 patients was stolen in December and remains missing. The theft was blamed on a former worker whose employment ended Dec. 28, the day the theft was discovered and reported…
AU: Govt loses credit card details in attack
Darren Pauli reports: More than 600 corporate credit cards owned by top Federal Government agencies from the Department of Defence to the Australian Federal Police have been exposed in a suspected espionage attack on a Sydney firm. ZDNet Australia has obtained an document that contains 629 valid credit card numbers along with expiry dates, organisation…
Patient data stolen from Philadelphia’s Family Planning Council
Robert Moran reports: The Family Planning Council in Philadelphia made public Friday that a computer storage device containing the personal and medical records of about 70,000 patients was stolen in December and remains missing. The theft was blamed on a former worker whose employment ended Dec. 28, the day the theft was discovered and reported…
Florida signs contract to begin long-awaited prescription drug database
Dara Kam reports: Florida’s much-anticipated prescription drug database is finally underway after Department of Health officials on Friday signed off on an order ending the bid dispute that’s held the system at bay for more than a year. Florida Surgeon General Frank Farmer signed the final order Friday securing the contract with Alabama-based Health Information…
In Surprise Appeal, TJX Hacker Claims U.S. Authorized His Crimes
Kim Zetter reports on an appeal filed by Albert Gonzalez. Gonzalez has asked for his guilty pleas to be overturned, claiming that everything he did (his criminal acts) were at the behest of the Secret Service and that he did not know that he could offer a Public Authority defense. In writing his appeal, Gonzalez…