Katie McDonough reports: A Louisiana state lawmaker has filed a measure to keep a state database of people who have had medication abortions, as well as restrict access to surgical abortion through Texas-style regulations aimed to shutter clinics and intimidate physicians. Democratic state Rep. Katrina Jackson’s bill, in addition to keeping a state database of…
Month: March 2014
GA: Laptop with patient information stolen from Emory clinic
Alexis Stevens reports: A laptop stolen from a vehicle at an Emory Healthcare clinic contained limited information for 826 patients, the university said Monday. On Feb. 7, a car belonging to an employee of the Emory Dialysis Clinic was one of several broken into, according to Vince Dollard, spokesman for the university’s health services. An…
Vermont officials say personal data safe after breach involving Vermont Health Connect
Peter Hirschfield reports: State officials say a newly disclosed security breach involving Vermont Health Connect has not jeopardized the personal data of consumers. But a critic of the new health insurance website isn’t convinced the incident was so benign. And this latest episode promises to spark yet another political dustup over the massive reform initiative….
Statista Says Around 50,000 Users Are Impacted by Data Breach
Eduard Kovacs reports: On Saturday, we learned that statistics company Statista suffered a data breach. The company has responded to my inquiry about the incident and provided additional details. It turns out that roughly 50,000 users are impacted by the data breach. The incident was discovered after spam emails started landing in email addresses that have…
Experian Lapse Allowed ID Theft Service Access to 200M Consumer Records – Krebs
Brian Krebs writes: In October 2013, KrebsOnSecurity published an exclusive story detailing how a Vietnamese man running an online identity theft service bought personal and financial records on Americans directly from a company owned by Experian, one of the three major U.S. credit bureaus. Today’s story looks deeper at the damage wrought in this colossal misstep by one…
No consensus on notifying victims of data breaches, but I have a few thoughts
Eric Tucker of Associated Press reports: The data breach at Target Corp. that exposed millions of credit card numbers has focused attention on the patchwork of state consumer notification laws and renewed a push for a single national standard. Most states have laws that require retailers to disclose data breaches, but the laws vary wildly….