Bryan Thompson and Sean B. Hoar of Davis Wright Tremaine LLP provide a status on action – and much inaction on bills at the federal and state level: Congress has moved at a glacial pace in considering data security legislation this year, even as the fallout over major data breaches, including the OPM breach, turned…
Month: July 2015
UK: Thousands of email addresses stolen in Edinburgh council cyber-attack
Danielle Correa reports: More than 13,000 email addresses have been hacked through Edinburgh City Council’s computer system. Aside from email addresses, no other personal information was accessed or stolen during the assault. The local authority said in an email to people who have an online account with the council that the attacker invaded the security…
Hacking Team claims terrorists can now use its tools
Jeremy Kirk reports: Hacking Team has warned that a devastating data breach it suffered will allow its spying tools to be used by criminals and terrorists. The Milan-based security company, which develops surveillance tools for mostly government clients, saw more than 400GB of internal data released on Sunday, including emails, clients lists, financial information and…
Govt. prosecutes health workers for snooping into Rob Ford’s medical records
Olivia Carville reports: Three hospital workers have been charged under Ontario’s health privacy law for snooping into former mayor Rob Ford’s medical records after he was diagnosed with cancer. If convicted, this will be the first time in Ontario’s history that an individual has been successfully prosecuted under the Personal Health Information Protection Act (PHIPA)…
‘I’m COMING for you, DIRTBAG!’: Ex-Sony chief Smedley to Kid Lizard hacker
Alexander J. Martin reports: John Smedley, the former head of Sony Online Entertainment, has reacted to a Lizard Squad hacker’s lenient sentence with utter fury, and has suggested he may take legal action to bring him back to court. [..] Smedley took off on a long Twitter rant about the hacker, largely on personal grievances…
wtf?
ESPN obtained medical charts that show Giants DE Jason Pierre-Paul had right index finger amputated today. pic.twitter.com/VI5cbS1uCw — Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) July 8, 2015 How did ESPN obtain those charts? If Pierre-Paul gave the records to ESPN with permission to share publicly, that’s his right, of course, but did he, or did someone just share his…