Alex M. Pearce of Ellis & Winters LLP writes: ….. When a business suffers a data breach, state laws require the business to send a notice to affected individuals. Those laws typically prescribe the contents of the required notice—sometimes in detail. North Carolina’s data breach notification statute, for instance, requires the notice to include “[a]dvice…
Month: September 2018
State Department email breach exposed employees’ personal information
Eric Geller and Nahal Toosi report: The State Department recently suffered a breach of its unclassified email system, and the compromise exposed the personal information of a small number of employees, according to a notice sent to the agency’s workforce. State described the incident as “activity of concern … affecting less than 1% of employee…
Hackers selling research phished from universities on WhatsApp
Lisa Vaas reports: Iranian hackers have reportedly breached top British universities – including Oxford and Cambridge – to steal what the Telegraph says are “millions” of papers and academic research documents that they then put up for sale via WhatsApp and websites. The publication reported on Friday that much of the subject matter is bland,…
PA: Independence Blue Cross and subsidiaries notifying members whose PHI was mistakenly exposed on public web site
John George reports: Independence Blue Cross and its subsidiaries AmeriHealth HMO and AmeriHealth Insurance Co. of New Jersey have alerted certain members of a recent incident involving a potential privacy issue related to protected health information. […] “We quickly launched an investigation to determine the nature and scope of this incident, working with a leading…
Russians tried to hack Swiss lab testing samples from Skripal attack
Sean Gallagher reports: Last Friday, Dutch officials revealed that they had arrested and expelled two alleged Russian intelligence agents who were caught attempting to hack into the Spiez Laboratory, a Swiss national laboratory that is home to the Swiss Federal Institute for NBC (Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical) Protection. The Spiez lab was testing two sets…
Altaba to settle lawsuits relating to Yahoo data breach for $47 million
Zack Whittaker reports: Altaba, the holding company of what Verizon left behind after its acquisition of Yahoo, said it has settled three ongoing legal cases relating to Yahoo’s previously disclosed data breaches. In a Monday filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, the former web giant turned investment company said it has agreed to end…