May 16 – A federal jury today convicted a Latvian “non-citizen,” meaning a citizen of the former USSR who had been residing in Riga, Latvia, of three counts related to his operation of “Scan4you,” an online counter antivirus service that helped computer hackers to determine whether the computer viruses and other malicious software they created would…
Month: May 2018
UK: Crown Prosecution Service fined £325,000 after losing victim interview videos
How many monetary penalties will it take before the Crown Prosecution Service gets its data protection act together and does a reasonable job of protecting victim-related information?This is the second monetary penalty they’ve been hit with in the past few years: The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has been fined £325,000 by the ICO after they…
LifeBridge Health and LifeBridge Potomac Professionals Notify Patients of a Recent Security Incident
From their press release: LifeBridge Health and LifeBridge Potomac Professionals announced today that it is sending letters to patients about a recent security incident involving patient information. On March 18, 2018, LifeBridge Health discovered that malware infected the server that host LifeBridge Potomac Professional’s electronic medical record, and LifeBridge Health’s patient registration and billing systems….
Ontario PC candidate resigns after private 407 freeway confirms ‘internal theft’ of data on 60,000 customers
Tom Blackwell reports: An employee of Ontario’s 407 private freeway quit suddenly Wednesday as a Progressive Conservative candidate in next month’s election, barely an hour after the highway confirmed that information on 60,000 customers had been leaked through an “internal theft.” Simmer Sandhu, the candidate for Brampton East, said in an online statement that he…
CBC warns past, current staff personal data may be at risk after break-in, theft of computer
CBC News reports on a CBC breach: The CBC is warning more than 20,000 of its past, present and contract employees that their personal and financial information may be at risk after a break-in and the theft of computer equipment. “An intruder recently broke into a secure area of CBC/Radio-Canada, stealing a piece of computer…
Respiratory therapy supplier Lincare agrees to pay $875K to settle data breach lawsuit
Evan Sweeney reports: The country’s largest provider of home respiratory supplies has agreed to pay $875,000 to settle a class-action lawsuit from former employees whose information was exposed during a 2017 data breach. The settlement (PDF) resolves a lawsuit filed last fall that claimed Lincare failed to implement “the most basic security safeguards” to prevent…