by admin | Aug 13, 2016 | Scam of the day, Site Related
Data breaches at hospitals and other health care providers are a major problem. The Ponemon Institute’s study of the health care industry this year found 90% of health care organizations suffered data breaches during the last two years including the massive...
by admin | Dec 13, 2015 | Scam of the day, Site Related
Although we often think that identity theft is a high tech crime, in fact identity theft is a high tech, low tech and no tech crime. The Manhattan District Attorney recently arrested a married couple Kyle Steed and his wife Krystle Steed charging them in a 193 count...
by admin | Sep 13, 2015 | Scam of the day, Site Related
Health insurer Excellus Blue Cross/Blue Shield became the latest major health insurer to disclose that it had suffered a data breach affecting 10.5 million people. The compromised information may include names, birth dates, Social Security numbers, mailing addresses,...
by admin | Aug 10, 2015 | Scam of the day, Site Related
Recently I told you about the hacking and data breach of Medical Informatics Engineering (MIE) and its cloud service NoMoreClipboard. MIE operates more than 300 medical centers in 38 states. On May 26th it discovered that it had been hacked since May 7th. ...
by admin | Jul 25, 2015 | Scam of the day, Site Related
Here is a link to my column from today’s edition of USA Today. It deals with the recent data breach at UCLA Health services and the problems of medical identity theft....