KMOV reports: St. Louis Community College said it is investigating a possible breach of student information. The school says an email attachment containing personally identifiable information for 362 students was sent to a small number of other students. The attachment has names, email, ID numbers and home addresses of the 362 students. The school says…
Month: March 2018
Resource: 5 steps to get a handle on your practice’s cyber vulnerability
This free webinar, recorded in September, 2017, might be very helpful to small practices or solo practitioners who are feeling overwhelmed about how to start hardening their security to comply with HIPAA and to prevent attacks or breaches. From the AMA: A staggering 83 percent of physicians recently told AMA researchers that their practices have…
Verizon 2018 Protected Health Information Data Breach Report
From Verizon: We’ve re-examined the data within our Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR) series (2016 and 2017) to focus in on the healthcare sector’s unique profile and security challenges, and particularly the use/abuse of protected health information (PHI). Our 2018 Protected Health Information Data Breach Report (PHIDBR) is underpinned by 1,368 incidents from this caseload…
Oregon, New York, Alabama, and Rhode Island Join List of States Considering Data Breach Legislation Post-Equifax
David M. Stauss and Gregory Szewczyk of Ballard Spahr LLP write: In the absence of federal action, state legislators continue to propose bills that would increase data privacy and security protections for consumers. Any entity that does business in these states or maintains confidential information of their residents should monitor the legislation to determine whether and how…
Oregon lawmakers give data breach victims more protection
KTVZ reports: Six months after the data breach of credit reporting agency Equifax exposed the private information of 145 million Americans, the Oregon House on Thursday overwhelmingly passed Senate Bill 1551, expanding consumer protections for Oregonians. The legislation would institute a number of key provisions including requirements that breaches be reported more quickly and consumers…
Lawmaker looks to boost FTC power in data breach enforcement
Chase Gunter reports: Rep. Ted Lieu (D-Calif.) is looking to toughen standards on private sector data breaches. His new bill was released the same day that Equifax announced that an additional 2.4 million Americans had their information stolen from the company, on top of the 145 million it had previously disclosed. Lieu wants to expand…