And speaking of outrageous breaches, Elise Viebeck reports:
A top House committee launched another probe of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Tuesday after a lawsuit alleged that the agency improperly seized millions of personal medical records in California.
In a letter, Republican leaders on the Energy and Commerce panel asked the IRS to explain how it handles confidential medical information.
“While [federal] privacy rules restrict the ability of a covered entity to release protected health information, those rules appear to impose no restrictions on the IRS’s ability to use such information after it is obtained,” the lawmakers wrote.
Read more on The Hill.
The letter requests a response from the IRS by June 21.