Wouter Seinen of Baker & McKenzie writes: Effective 2016, Netherlands’ businesses must notify the Dutch data protection authority (“DPA”) and sometimes individuals if they suffer certain data breaches that involve personal data under their control. Companies will have to take this seriously, as failure to notify may lead to fines up to €500,000 (or potentially…
Month: November 2015
VTECH Hack Exposes Data on More Than 200,000 Kids and Almost 5M parents (update2)
Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai reports: The personal information of almost 5 million parents and more than 200,000 kids was exposed earlier this month after a hacker broke into the servers of a Chinese company that sells kids toys and gadgets, Motherboard has learned. The hacked data includes names, email addresses, passwords, and home addresses of 4,833,678 parents…
GA: Hundreds of DeKalb teachers’ personal information exposed
Keith Whitney reports: Just one day after that massive data leak from the Georgia Secretary of State’s office there was yet another one. This one involved hundreds of teachers from the DeKalb County School System. The breach was part of a mass email that was sent out to the system’s special education teachers. But somehow,…
UK: Children’s charity hit by server theft
Alexander J. Martin reports: A two-man break in at the London offices of children’s charity Plan UK has resulted in theft of five computer servers. Plan UK has stated that while “the likely motive was to steal the equipment itself, rather than the data … we cannot escape the fact that personal information is also…
‘We complained to Santander CEO of data breach – and were sent documents of three other customers’
Nicole Blackmore reports: Santander has been labelled “incompetent” after a string of errors that saw it lose a couple’s mortgage documents and instead send them letters containing four different customers’ private information in a “gross breach” of data protection laws. Read more on The Telegraph.
Pathways Professional Counseling notifies patients; SSN, financial, insurance, diagnosis and treatment info all on stolen laptop
A laptop stolen from a Pathways Professional Counseling employee’s vehicle in September contained unencrypted personal, clinical, financial, and insurance information. Alabama Baptist Children’s Homes & Family Ministries, d/b/a Pathways Professional Counseling (PPC) appears to be a hybrid entity under HIPAA. PPC has numerous locations throughout Alabama and describes itself as a non-profit counseling ministry. Here is the…