Dale Bass reports: John Ranta isn’t happy about a privacy breach at Royal Inland Hospital. The mayor of Cache Creek and former chair of the Thompson-Nicola Hospital District board said he was given a copy of a letter sent to one of the people in his community from RIH, advising that a binder with patient…
Month: April 2018
Alabama Becomes 50th State to Enact Data Breach Notification Law
Edward McAndrew of Ballard Spahr LLP writes: Alabama has officially joined the data breach notification party. Alabama Governor Kay Ivey signed Act No. 2018-396 into law on March 28, 2018. The law will take effect on May 1, 2018. Although it was last in the country to enact such a data security law, Alabama’s new…
FINRA, State Regulators Accused of Letting Sensitive Data Go Public
A whistle-blower is accusing some key financial regulators of allowing sensitive broker information to become readily accessible, even as industry watchdogs emphasized the need for companies to protect client data. According to a complaint lodged with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, personal data such as brokerage account numbers provided to an industry-funded regulator have…
Data Protection Commissioner to investigate alleged INM breach
The Data Protection Commissioner intends to investigate whether personal data was accessed in an alleged data breach at Independent News & Media. In a statement, Commissioner Helen Dixon added that she would be investigating whether data was it processed in accordance with data protection legislation. Read more on RTÉ .
Hackers have taken down dozens of 911 centers. Why is it so hard to stop them?
Jon Schuppe reports: … There have been 184 cyberattacks on public safety agencies and local governments in the past 24 months, according to a compilation of publicly reported incidents by the cybersecurity firm SecuLore Solutions. That includes Atlanta, which fell victim to a ransomware attack a couple days before the one on Baltimore, scrambling the…
Panerabread.com Leaks Millions of Customer Records
Brian Krebs and I were both on the same mission today – to get Panera Breach to secure their customer data. I had been alerted to the situation by a reader who saw a paste explaining it all and revealing some customer data. Brian heard about it earlier from security researcher Dylan Houlihan, who had first…