Healthcare and other industries still in the dark about the extent of...
Should we improve Internet security before putting more secure stuff on the Internet? Since last summer, four major medical-themed hackings have been discovered somewhere in America, in addition to the...
View ArticleStolen prescriptions in Baltimore looting pose ID theft risk
Personal medical information, prescriptions stolen from Rite Aid stores in Baltimore during April looting. As looted prescription drugs flood Baltimore streets, fueling a surge in violence, pharmacy...
View ArticleWhat Lawmakers Are Doing About Health Care Cybersecurity
Although recently proposed bills being considered by Congress and policy proposals from the Obama administration that take aim at cybersecurity are not specifically aimed health care, they do touch on...
View ArticleHealthcare data security is like a box of chocolates
Some big surprises from a recent security study. The Fifth Annual Benchmark Study on Privacy & Security of Healthcare Data by Ponemon Institute had more surprises than Forrest Gump’s box of...
View ArticleSafeguarding PHI from Looters
Drugstore Incidents in Baltimore Offer Lessons. Retail pharmacy chain Rite Aid on June 3 issued a statement to notify the media that an undisclosed number of customers of several of its Baltimore area...
View ArticleNew Texas law aims to prevent physicians from becoming medical ID theft victim
Medical identity theft victim doctor found hundreds of fraudulent prescriptions were filled using her prescriber ID. Last year, Dr. Cheryl White learned that her credentials had been swiped by pill...
View ArticleMedical Identity Theft and Fraud Are Rising: How to Protect Your Organization...
Which industry suffers the most data breaches each year? Retail, maybe? Or banking and finance? In fact, for the past several years the answer has been the healthcare industry—and that has meant a...
View ArticleMedical identity theft hits all-time high
“We do see healthcare organizations and health plans making moves.” The lion’s share of medical identity theft victims can expect to pay upwards of $13,500 to resolve the crime. What’s more, about 50...
View ArticleHospital ID Theft Leads to Fraud
Eight Indicted for Using Stolen Patient Info to Make Purchases. Eight alleged members of an identity theft ring, including a former assistant clerk at Montefiore Medical Center in New York, have been...
View ArticleFighting Medical ID Theft – Latest Research, Security Trends
Since 2010, incidents of medical ID theft have nearly doubled, according to recent research from the Medical Identity Fraud Alliance. In addition, “While the average cost per victim went down, the...
View ArticleBCBS Plans Offer Blanket ID Protection
Credit and ID Fraud Protection Offer Comes After Mega Breaches. In the wake of large hacking attacks against several of its affiliates in recent months, the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association says all...
View ArticleWill ID Protection Offer Set New Standard?
Assessing Whether Others Will Be Influenced by BCBS Offer. Blue Cross Blue Shield plans’ groundbreaking offer, in the wake of mega-breaches, of extended ID protection to all of the more than 106...
View ArticleClass-action suit filed against UCLA Health over patient-data security breach
Plaintiff seeks class action status on behalf of “several millions” of victims. On July 17, 2015, UCLA Health admitted it was the latest American healthcare system to be hit by a massive data breach,...
View ArticleMedical Record Breach Impacts 3.9 Million People Nationwide
The data potentially exposed includes names, phone numbers, mailing addresses, user names, hashed passwords, security questions and answers, email addresses, birthdates, Social Security numbers, lab...
View ArticleHow to Combat Medical ID Theft
Review doctor and health insurer notices to preempt the problem. The Problem A crook uses health insurance information to get medical care and prescription drugs in your name. Medical ID theft is...
View ArticleHow Identity Theft Sticks You With Hospital Bills
Thieves use stolen personal data to get treatment, drugs, medical equipment. Kathleen Meiners was puzzled when a note arrived last year thanking her son Bill for visiting Centerpoint Medical Center in...
View ArticleMedical Identity Theft On the Rise – VIDEO
An estimated 2.3 million adults were affected by medical identity theft last year. Some hospitals are turning to new technology such as biometric screening to confirm patient identities. Click here to...
View ArticleMedical identity theft is on the rise, leaving Cincinnati residents struggling
Christine Carpenter was surprised, to say the least, when she received a bill from Jewish Hospital – Mercy Health in July for treatment of a heroin overdose. The 37-year-old Reading resident owes...
View ArticleMedical Identity Theft Is ‘Off the Charts’
CareFirst, Inc. is facing a proposed class-action lawsuit over the data breach it disclosed in May, with one current member and one former member leading the charge in the complaint filed Aug. 6 with...
View ArticleMedical ID theft a growing threat to consumers; protect yourself with these tips
One type of ID theft that isn’t as widespread as recent headline-grabbing data breaches — but can be just as devastating to the individual consumer — is medical ID theft.. As consumers, we have learned...
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