Delmer Holmes Parrish, 44, a licensed pharmacist, and Patricia Parrish, 74, both of Naples, Florida, today pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit health care fraud. According to the plea agreement, from in or around February 2009 through in or about July 2012, the two participated in a conspiracy to defraud federal health care benefit programs…
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Suit hits Pentagon over huge 2011 data breach
Bryan Bender has a piece in The Boston Globe about the TRICARE/SAIC breach last December. The story doesn’t shed any new light on the breach, and I am still waiting for Rep. Ed Markey to release the response he got from TRICARE to a letter he had sent them (his staff assures me he will…
The six worst data breaches of 2011
If you’re looking for the biggest breaches of the year in terms of numbers affected, you can find them over on DataLossDB.org or in others’ reviews. Certainly there were some really big breaches this year, but those were not necessarily the worst, in my opinion. So here’s my short list of the year’s worst breaches…
Survey – More patient data breaches, less security, and more headaches for patients
Ponemon has released a new survey on data breaches in the healthcare sector. The Second Annual Benchmark Study on Patient Privacy and Data Security, sponsored by ID Experts, is available on their web site, but I want to pull out a few points from the results that I think are worth noting: The number of…
(update) On second thought…. SAIC offers free credit monitoring after breach
TRICARE, the military health program, has directed its business associate, Science Applications International Corp., to offer one year’s worth of free credit monitoring and restoration services to the 4.9 million beneficiaries affected by a recent breach. Earlier, TRICARE had announced that it would not offer credit monitoring services, citing the minimal risk involved in the breach,…
What could be worse than 4.9 million? How about 5.1 million?
The HHS breach tool has been updated and I noticed that the SAIC/TRICARE breach entry has been added. I also noticed that although media reports had the breach as affecting 4.9 million, the actual number appears to be 5,117,799. A lawsuit has been filed against the Department of Defense after backup tapes were stolen from…