In 2014, nearly 9 million patient health records were breached in 164 reported incidents. By March 2015, that number had increased tenfold. In fact, it is estimated that one in three health records ...

Medical identity theft is on the rise and hasn’t shown signs of slowing down anytime soon, according to a new report released Thursday. Conducted by privacy and security research firm Ponemon ...

NEW YORK -- Medical identity theft is a crime on the rise. Nearly 2.5 million cases were reported in 2014, an increase of 20 percent from the year before. A stolen medical identity can ruin your ...

Medical Identity Theft can cause both financial harm and health risks by inserting inaccurate information into a senior’s medical records. Seniors are urged to protect their Medicare numbers and avoid ...

Medical identity theft has been escalating dramatically where cybercriminals have found an industry ill-prepared to adequately protect itself from the onslaught. This article will briefly discuss the ...

(WJAR) — Any form of identity theft is bad, and can be a nightmare to clean up. But when it comes to medical identity theft, the repercussions can be downright dangerous! “This is something of which ...

"Medicare Fraud of the Month for April" ALBANY, N.Y., April 10, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- The New York StateWide Senior Action Council (StateWide), a 53-year-old non-profit organization dedicated to ...

2. A cluster of southeastern states emerged as a regional hotspot for medical identity theft. 3. Trends of aggressive debt collection as the result of medical identity theft also emerged, including ...

The use of electronic medical records (EMR) has become the norm. Medical records have been catapulted into electronic form and into the cloud by the advent of cloud computing, distributed data, and ...

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- Medical identity theft is a crime on the rise. Nearly 2.5 million cases were reported in 2014, an increase of 20 percent from the year before. A stolen medical identity can ...