Rebecca Hill reports: The British Home Office’s bid to reduce the number of potential claimants from a 2013 data breach that exposed the personal details of thousands of asylum seekers has been knocked back by the Court of Appeal. Rather than simply publishing overall statistics on the family returns process – the system by which…
Month: June 2018
Ca: Data breach at CarePartners
Jennifer Hamilton-McCharles reports: One of the province’s most well-known home care service providers has fallen victim of a cyber-attack. The attack has breached CarePartners‘ computer system and as a result patient and employee information held in that system, including personal health and financial information, has been inappropriately accessed, according to Ontario’s Local Health Integration Network….
Changes to Louisiana’s Data Breach Notification Law Go Into Effect August 1
Joseph J. Lazzarotti, Jason C. Gavejian, and Maya Atrakchi of Jackson Lewis write that changes to Louisiana’s data breach notification law (Act 382) go into effect on August 1 of this year. Those changes include expansion of the definition of personal information, requirements that notification be made no later than 60 days from discovery of…
Impatient former Hong Kong library worker arrested after stealing customers’ personal data to borrow books faster
I know, I know. It’s a crime and it’s very very wrong, but I’d be curious to meet this woman and ask her about what appears to be her voracious reading habits. Danny Mok of the South China Morning Post recently reported: A bibliophile who worked in a Hong Kong public library has been arrested for using…
Data breach of 1,000 patients lands former Long Beach VA worker in prison
Megan Barnes reports that more than 1,000 patients at the Long Beach Veterans Affairs Medical Center had their information stolen by a now-former employee who has been sentenced to prison. Albert Torres was reportedly arrested on April 12 after officers became suspicious when his license plates were not those for a noncommercial vehicle. A search…
Andhra Pradesh Tracked You As You Bought Viagra, Then Put Your Name and Phone Number on the Internet for the World to See
Gopal Sathe reports: Bengaluru — If you are the gentleman who bought Suhagra 50, a generic version of Viagra, and some Vomiford anti-nausea drops, on June 13 from a government-run Anna Sanjivini store in Anantpur in Rayalseema, your name, phone number and purchases, were listed on an Andhra Pradesh government website — until HuffPost alerted…