Rob O’Neill reports: Privacy Commissioner John Edwards expects data breach notification to become mandatory in New Zealand as part of changes to the Privacy Act now being drafted by the Ministry of Justice. “Government has already agreed to bring our law up to speed with many of our comparative jurisdictions,” Edwards said. “It’s now well…
Month: February 2018
Scottish National Party hit out after investigation reveals data security breaches in Whitehall
Kieran Andrews reports: Lost confidential papers, leaked email addresses and the release of sensitive personal information were just some of the 4000 “data security incidences” recorded by the UK Government recorded last year. Data uncovered by the SNP has revealed that in one case an assault victim’s new name and address was inadvertently sent to…
Lawsuit against Rensselaer County partially revived on medical privacy issue
There’s an update to an insider-wrongdoing lawsuit that I first noted back in September, 2013, after some employees at Rensselaer County Jail filed suit against their employer for snooping in their medical records. As I’ve reported in the past, the breaches occurred against a backdrop where the county jail uses Samaritan Hospital to provide services…
Equifax Hack Might Be Worse Than You Think
AnnaMaria Andriotis reports: Hackers in the Equifax Inc. breach accessed more of consumers’ personal information than the company disclosed publicly last year. Equifax said, in a document submitted to the Senate Banking Committee and reviewed by The Wall Street Journal, that cyberthieves accessed records across numerous tables in its systems that included such data as…
CFAA “Unauthorized Access” Web Scraping Claim against Ticket Broker Dismissed Because Revocation of Access Not Expressed in Cease and Desist Letter
Jeffrey D. Neuberger of Proskauer Rose writes: A California district court issued an important opinion in a dispute between a ticket sales platform and a ticket broker that employed automated bots to purchase tickets in bulk. (Ticketmaster L.L.C. v. Prestige Entertainment, Inc., No. 17-07232 (C.D. Cal. Jan. 31, 2018)). For those of us who have…
Study estimates 41 per cent of Canadian companies had sensitive data exposed
The Canadian Press reports: A new study suggests nearly 90 per cent of Canadian organizations suffered at least one security breach last year and sensitive data was exposed almost half of the time. The survey found that one in five breaches was classified as “high impact” because sensitive customer or employee information was exposed. Read…