Nathan A. Schacht comments on the recent ruling in a lawsuit against SK Communications: … According to reports about this case, the focus was on SK Communications’ violation of its duty to protect the personal data of its operations’ subscribers, including their names, dates of birth, cell numbers and social security numbers. Apparently, after an…
Month: March 2013
Tunisian Cyber Army Spree of Attacks on Financial Sites
Last month a hacker using the handle @TN_cyberarmy who goes by the team or group name of Tunisian Cyber Army had been on a small spree of attacks on financial based websites. The attacks range from a bank in America to two master card websites being exposed as having XSS exploits in them which are still…
lulzsec.com Sub domain hacked or was it
Updated: Sub domain has been taken over by the FBI, see below. Today i was alerted to a hack by a group of old school hackers from the late 90’s who have left a sub domain of the well known hacker collective lulzsec hacked. The attack appears to be a DNS attack as well as…
Did Samaritan Hospital violate HIPAA?
Over on Healthcare IT News, Erin McCann has a bit more on the Samaritan Hospital breach I blogged about yesterday. I found some of her assertions interesting, and because I’m not sure I agree with her on her reading of HIPAA’s requirements, thought I would discuss them here. Erin bases most of her commentary on…
Lucile Salter Packard Children's Hospital avoids $250,000 penalty for late breach notification (updated)
UPDATE: In a statement sent to PHIprivacy.net on March 7, a CDPH spokesperson writes: The original $250,000 penalty posting was an error discovered during the appeal. The correct calculation should have been $100/day times the number of days the facility failed to report the breach to CDPH, for a total penalty of $1100. So after…
Nurse posing with corpse sparks outrage
What is the matter with some healthcare professionals? AFP reports on this case from Switzerland: A nurse in Switzerland who posted pictures of herself on Facebook sitting next to the corpse of an old woman is coming under fire from her profession, while prosecutors say they have launched an investigation. Saint Gallen’s regional prosecutors said…