Irene Tham reports: Countries that legally require companies and organisations to report data breaches to the authorities are doing the right thing and the rest of the world should do the same, reporters were told yesterday. Singapore has yet to follow the lead of mature jurisdictions such as the United States and Canada that make…
Month: August 2015
Target: SEC won’t penalize it over 2013 data breach
Evan Ramstad reports: The Securities and Exchange Commission decided not to penalize Target Corp. for the 2013 cyberattack that led to the exposure of data for millions of the retailer’s customers, the company said Tuesday. The agency was one of several governmental entities to investigate the company in the wake of the attack, one of…
Audit: California agencies vulnerable to IT security breach
Juliet Williams of AP reports: Many California state agencies are not complying with the state’s information technology standards, leaving them vulnerable to a major security breach of sensitive data such as Social Security numbers, health information or tax returns, the state auditor reported Tuesday. “Our review found that many state entities have weaknesses in their…
Should Ashley Madison worry about U.S. class actions?: Frankel
Alison Frankel writes: The adultery-encouraging website Ashley Madison is now facing at least five U.S. class actions by users who claim the site failed to protect their confidential information from hackers who have since dumped their names, addresses and sexual predilections onto the Internet. The good news for people burned in the Ashley Madison attack:…
OH: 7,664 families notified of recordings missing from Akron Children’s Hospital
WFMJ reports: Akron Children’s Hospital has notified 7,664 patient families, including some from the Boardman facility, that a hard drive of back-up transport voice recordings has been lost. According to a statement from the hospital, the hard drive contains voice recordings of communications between dispatchers and medical staff at community hospitals, physician offices and Akron Children’s…
UCLA Health breach notification results in confusion, more breaches?
The massive breach at UCLA Health was bad enough, but now it looks like their breach notification resulted not only in confusion, but a second HIPAA privacy breach. Lisa Zamosky reports: Steve Reasner recently learned that because he is a patient at UCLA Health, his personal information may now be in the hands of criminals….