Posting much of a lengthy press release here because I think you can expect to see follow-ups on this blog for some of these prosecutions. Some of the emphasis added by me: Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, Jose A. Gonzalez, Special Agent in Charge, Internal Revenue Service, Criminal…
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Kaiser Permanente Northern California Department of Research to notify participants of potential breach
Kaiser Permanente Northern California Department of Research is notifying patients of a breach that they believe occurred in October 2011. OK, now that I have your attention, on or about April 3, they will begin sending out breach notification letters that say that on February 12, 2014, they discovered that a server used to store…
LewisGale Regional Health System dealing with insider data breach
Susan Bahorich reports what appears to be an insider breach affecting patients of Hospitalists of Tennessee/Salem Hospitalists: WDBJ7 learned Wednesday that patient information from the hospital’s billing department may have been compromised. The Secret Service tells WDBJ7 this is a multi-state investigation. A LewisGale spokesperson says approximately 40 local patients are affected. We’re talking about…
Franciscan Health System clarifies scope of breach
Franciscan Health System is trying to ensure the public and affected patients understand that patients’ full medical records were not involved in a Catholic Health Initiatives breach disclosed yesterday. That does not mean, however, that medical information may not have been exposed. In a statement published in the News Tribune, the spokesperson explains: “What was…
Possible security breach at Florida Radiology Consultants
WINK reports: On Tuesday morning, staff at Florida Radiology Consultants noticed someone had accessed their computer system, hours after they closed. Deputies say whoever did this, got in through an employee’s IP address. “Could have been robotic, actually human being you don’t mind because some of these attack take days,” said Shaun Book, of Area…
FL: Man gets prison for commiting tax fraud with vets’ stolen medical records
Elaine Silvestrini reports an update to a breach previously noted on this blog: A convicted killer who used stolen veterans’ medical records to commit tax fraud was sentenced Monday to 7 1?2 years in federal prison Monday. Alexander Lenox was arrested after Tampa police investigated the smell of marijuana at a room at the Motel…