Hunton Andrews Kurth writes: On July 1, 2018, HB 183, which amends Virginia’s breach notification law, will come into effect (the “amended law”). The amended law will require income tax return preparers who prepare individual Virginia income tax returns to notify the state’s Department of Taxation (the “Department”) if they discover or are notified of…
Month: June 2018
Tesla sues employee alleged to have stolen gigabytes of data
Cyrus Farivar reports: On Wednesday, Tesla sued a former employee who worked in its Gigafactory in Nevada, accusing him of stealing trade secrets. The lawsuit appears to be what CEO Elon Musk was referring to recently when he said that production of the Model 3 had been sabotaged. […] According to the civil complaint that was filed…
PA: Washington Health System suspends about a dozen employees
Rick Shrum reports that no one has lost their job (yet), but a number of employees of Washington Health System in Pennsylvania have been suspended during an investigation of inappropriate access to patient records. The matter is believed to have been related to the untimely death of Kimberly Dollard, 57, of Amwell Township, on June 6….
Surgery technician accused of stealing personal information from BAMC
KSAT reports: A surgery technician is accused of taking personal information from a surgeon and other active-duty and retired military members at Brooke Army Medical Center. Abelardo Arellano, 32, was arrested after his wife found a notebook belonging to him with several people’s names, birthdays and Social Security numbers in it, authorities said. Read more…
Update: Med Associates notified 270,000 patients about hack detected in March
On June 14, medical claims processor Med Associates issued a press release notifying an unspecified number of patients of a hacking incident. The firm had become aware of unusual activity in their system on March 22. Now Brian Nearing of the Times Union has an update that indicates that more than 270,000 New York residents…
Email providers blacklist oregon.gov, now state can’t email some members of the public
When you think of consequences of employees clicking on phishing emails, did you ever think about how an entire state government might wind up having their email domain blacklisted? It happened to Oregon because oregon.gov was used to send out spam after an employee clicked on a phishing email. Hillary Borrud reports: Oregon’s state technology workers…