So it seems Anasazi Hotel LLC had a server compromise that began on June 18, 2012, but they didn’t find out until they were notified by their card processor on March 21, 2013. Now, almost a year after the breach began, they will first be sending out letters to those who stayed at the Rosewood…
Month: May 2013
Oral surgeon notifies former patients after laptop with their PHI was stolen from his office (updated)
Closing a private practice is not the end of our data security concerns, as a breach earlier this year reminds us. In January, attorneys for Lee D. Pollan, DMD, PC notified the NYS Division of Consumer Protection that PHI of 13,806 former patients was on a missing laptop. The laptop reportedly went missing from the…
Data breach notification rules should only apply where individuals are ‘severely affected’, say EU Ministers
Out-Law.com reports: Businesses should only have to report that they have experienced a personal data breach in cases where it is likely that individuals’ rights and freedoms have been “severely affected” by such a breach, EU Ministers have proposed. The Working Party on Information Exchange and Data Protection (DAPIX), set up within the structure’s of…
Lawsuits taking a different tack following healthcare data breaches
Jacob Hale Russell of Thomson Reuters reports that because data breach lawsuits generally get dismissed if plaintiffs cannot show financial harm, lawyers are shifting away from lawsuits based on privacy claims to lawsuits based on theories: But plaintiffs’ lawyers of late have been switching tack: Rather than framing lawsuits stemming from data breaches as privacy…
OpEDL Events and Attacks From Both Sides
In may 2013 Anonymous hacktivist launched a new operation dubbed #OpEDL. This operation was aimed at the well known English Defense League after the recent attack in which Drummer Lee Rigby was killed in broad day light and the EDL came out and supported these actions. This page is here to keep track of the actions…
Social site Qpid.me to help teens get STD tests and share results
What can possibly go wrong…. David Knowles reports: Qpid.me, a California-based company, is hoping to make the sharing of STD test results as commonplace as Facebook status updates or Twitter messages, and has partnered with the Los Angeles Unified School District to get their message across. The company’s newly launched, free service helps direct anyone…