YLE reports: A data leak earlier this year saw the personal data and even laboratory test results of some 6,000 patients posted online, said the National Institute for Health and Welfare (THL) on Tuesday. The data ombudsman informed THL of the leak in August. The institute then removed the data from two online services where…
Month: September 2017
Healthcare Data Breach Litigation Trends
Bryan Cave provides a summary analysis of litigation in terms of what kinds of claims tend to fail to demonstrate standing in class action lawsuits and what types of claims may be sufficient to demonstrate standing. What they don’t show on either side of their chart is the question of “are the data involved highly embarrassing/stigmatizing?”…
7% of All Amazon S3 Servers Are Exposed, Explaining Recent Surge of Data Leaks
Catalin Cimpanu reports: During the past year, there has been a surge in data breach reporting regarding Amazon S3 servers left accessible online, and which were exposing private information from all sorts of companies and their customers. In almost all cases, the reason was that companies, through their staff, left Amazon S3 “buckets” configured to…
Deloitte hit by cyber-attack revealing clients’ secret emails
Nick Hopkins reports: One of the world’s “big four” accountancy firms has been targeted by a sophisticated hack that compromised the confidential emails and plans of some of its blue-chip clients, the Guardian can reveal. Deloitte, which is registered in London and has its global headquarters in New York, was the victim of a cybersecurity…
A legal expert weighs in on Student Disability Services’ accidental leak of 299 emails
Olivia Sylvester reports: After an email from [ University of Pennsylvania] Student Disability Services on Sept. 6 accidentally revealed the email addresses of 299 students who receive accommodations, Drexel University Law professor Robert Field said Penn will likely receive a “slap on the wrist” in terms of legal repercussions. I’d be surprised if they received…
Public shaming likely but GOP wary of new laws after Equifax breach
AP reports what I’ve basically been telling everyone already. Prospects are good for a public shaming in the Equifax data breach, but it’s unlikely Congress will institute sweeping new regulations after hackers accessed the personal information of an estimated 143 million Americans. Since early this year, President Donald Trump and the Republican-led Congress have strived…