From the public notice issued by Georgia Eye Associates: EyeSouth Statement Regarding Recent Security Incident EyeSouth Partners (“EyeSouth”) recently suffered a security incident that potentially affected the protected health information (“PHI”) of Georgia Eye Associates patients. EyeSouth has provided the following information to Georgia Eye Associates out of an abundance of caution: Between September 11,…
Month: February 2019
Indecent disclosure: Gay dating app left “private” images, data exposed to Web
Sean Gallagher reports on yet another exposed Amazon bucket: Jack’d, a “gay dating and chat” application with more than 1 million downloads from the Google Play store, has been leaving images posted by users and marked as “private” in chat sessions open to browsing on the Internet, potentially exposing the privacy of thousands of users….
Insurance Data Security Model Law Picks Up Steam
Andreas Kaltsounis and Shea M. Leitch of BakerHostetler write: Three states recently enacted variations of the National Association of Insurance Commissioner’s (NAIC) Insurance Data Security Model Law (MDL-668), based on the landmark cybersecurity requirements issued by the New York Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) in March 2017. The NYDFS requirements apply to certain banking, insurance…
FL: Trash scattered all over road contained SSN and medical records
Rachel Polansky reports: Trash scattered on the side of a major road in Lehigh Acres turns out to be information that could have ruined a woman’s life. The NBC2 Investigators went to check out the situation after your tips came into the newsroom. The tip came in as trash scattered on the side of the…
Danish Data Authority registers 2,780 privacy breach cases in last 7 months of 2018
Some Danish breach statistics, as seen at Telecompaper: The Danish Data Authority said 2,780 incidents of privacy breaches were reported to it from 25 May, when reporting such breaches became mandatory, and the end of 2018. It said approximately two thirds of these cases concerned information sent to the wrong recipient. Four out of five…
Trakt tardily notifies users of data breach that took place over four years ago
Mark Wycislik-Wilson reports: Users of Trakt — a service for “scrobbling”, or tracking the movies and TV shows you watch in the likes of Plex and Kodi — have received emails from the company notifying them of a data breach that took place way back in 2014. Trakt says that although the security breach took…