Add this to your MUST-READ list. It should be required reading for all hospital administrators. Kim Zetter reports: When Scott Erven was given free rein to roam through all of the medical equipment used at a large chain of Midwest health care facilities, he knew he would find security problems–but he wasn’t prepared for just…
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A few more breaches added to HHS's public breach tool
HHS recently started changing their breach tool. Unfortunately, at times they seem to add breaches before their more recent updates, and we may not notice they’ve been added if we’re used to starting at where we left off in their list. Today, I discovered a few more breaches they had added: Kmart reported 16,446 were…
Healthcare professionals in North Carolina victims of tax refund fraud
Last May, I reported on a breach affecting patients at Piedmont Healthcare and Presbyterian Anesthesia Associates in North Carolina whose website host, E-dreamz, had been hacked. At the time, I noted that not only patient data but some employee information was involved for Piedmont. Today, Kathryn Burcham of WSOC-TV reports that dozens of Piedmont Healthcare employees…
Concentra Health settles HHS charges over 2011 laptop theft breach, to pay $1.7M
Concentra Health Services (Concentra) has agreed to pay OCR $1,725,220 to settle potential violations of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) Privacy and Security Rules, and will adopt a corrective action plan to evidence their remediation of these findings. The settlement stems from an incident on November 30, 2011 (previously reported…
Latest update to HHS breach tool discloses previously unknown breaches
HHS has another big update to their public-facing breach tool. While many of the incidents they have added have already been noted on this blog, there are some ones that have not been mentioned here previously. Here are the incidents we did know about already (links are to previous coverage of the incident on PHIprivacy.net):…
FL: Lauderhill man gets five years in ID theft, tax fraud scheme
There’s another update to a case noted previously on this blog. Wayne Roustan reports: Andrew Ware, 27, got nearly six years in prison Friday, followed by three years probation after pleading guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud, wire fraud, conspiracy to commit access device fraud, and aggravated identity theft, prosecutors said. He was part…