CBC News reports: An Ontario transit agency says it was in the crosshairs of a North Korean cyberattack earlier this month. The attack was a virus, routed through Russia, that infected computers at Metrolinx, according to a source at the agency who spoke on condition of anonymity. Spokesperson Anne Marie Aikins confirmed to CBC Toronto that the attack took…
Month: January 2018
A.G. Schneiderman Announces Settlement With Aetna Over Privacy Breach Of New York Members’ HIV Status
I covered the news of this settlement last week, but note that in the process of investigating this breach, the attorney general’s office discovered a previous breach, too: NEW YORK – Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman today announced a settlement with Aetna Inc. (“Aetna”), following claims that Aetna revealed the HIV status of approximately 2,460 New…
Virginia General Assembly to Tackle a Variety of Privacy Related Bills
Christopher R. Nolen of McGuireWoods LLP writes: The Virginia General Assembly is underway and several privacy related bills are on the legislative agenda for 2018. The Virginia legislature will consider approximately 3,000 bills during its 60-day session that will end in early March. Here are several from Nolen’s list: In an attempt to further address…
MY: Personal Data Protection Commission to probe data leak
Is this going to be the Malaysian version of “shoot the messenger?” Rajvinder Singh, Ashwin Kumar and Haikal Jalil report: Police are suspicious that last year’s massive data breach of mobile phone users and the recent data breach of over 440,000 organ donors and their next-of-kin from government hospitals and the National Transplant Resource Centre,…
Topeka healthcare company fined for failing to protect personal information
I like seeing state attorneys general take enforcement action over breaches, even if the amount of the monetary penalties is quite small, as in this case. This case may remind people who have offices or satellite offices in their homes that they can’t just leave employee or patient data lying around where anyone can see…
ICE Releases Personal Information Of Immigrant-Crime Hotline Users
Because victims didn’t have enough tsuris already? This one appears to be an error made in responding to a FOIA request that resulted in personal information being revealed online. There was no text with the story – just the video news broadcast.