AG Pruitt files identity theft charges against Tulsa County woman
Attorney General Scott Pruitt on Monday announced two counts of false personation against a Glenpool woman. Araceli Montoya, 35, is believed...
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Hospital data and patients are vulnerable to ‘Dark Web’ hackers
Hospitals have gotten better at preventing some mistakes. Nurses now scrawl on patients skin with magic markers or affix big red...
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Report: Healthcare Data Breaches Continue at Alarming Pace in Second Half of 2016
Healthcare data breaches are continuing at an alarming pace, with the second half of 2016 shaping up to have more breach...
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Health Connect has security breach
A security lapse earlier this summer has compromised the Social Security numbers of nearly 700 customers on Vermont Health Connect. Officials...
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Former hospital orderly sentenced to prison for aggravated identity theft
Christopher R. Thyer, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas, Special Agent in Charge Diane Upchurch, of the Little...
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Urology data breach affected 300,000
Central Ohio Urology Group put a number to the size of its data breach August — 300,000. The Gahanna-based health-care provider...
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Medical ID theft continues to rise in the U.S., says Consumer Reports
Medical identity theft is a crime on the rise. Nearly 2.5 million cases were reported in 2014, an increase of 20...
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Fears that patients’ personal medical information has been leaked in Medicare data breach
There are fears patients’ sensitive medical information could have been made public in a Medicare data breach by the health department....
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Hospital patients caught in identity theft ring
Federal investigators say two women orchestrated an identity theft ring that targeted at least 20 people. But it’s how suspects Jamila...
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96,000 public servants in new data breach
The federal government is caught up in a second data privacy scare, this time involving a massive data-set on more than...
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