Kathleen Hickey provides a few more details on the Mesa County, Colorado breach (previously mentioned on this blog) that exposed personal information on informants and others: Potentially more than 200,000 files from the Mesa County Sheriff’s Office of Colorado, including sensitive data such as names, Social Security numbers and contact information on drug informants, employees,…
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PA: Two arrested at Limerick outlets for identity theft
Ellen Faust reports: Two New York men were arrested after being caught at a store with false identities and hundreds of bank account numbers, Social Security numbers and other personal information that was not their own. Vladimir Pascal, aka Derrick Brown, and David Rice, aka Clifford Augustine, both of Brooklyn, N.Y., were to be arraigned…
Connecticut Department of Public Health Statement on Inadvertent Release of Client Data
The Connecticut Department of Public Health (DPH) today announced that during a system upgrade to appointment scheduling software for clients of a program administered by the Department of Public Health, information intended for regional offices was inadvertently sent to an undetermined number of email addresses in the state. The Department of Public Health and Department…
Ohio State notifies 760,000 of unauthorized access to university server
Earlier this year, Ohio State University (OSU) noted that they had been averaging about data breaches per year, usually minor, but involving SSN. Yesterday, they revealed another breach. I’m not sure how you try to minimize access to a server containing PII on 760,000 people or a finding that your server was used to launch…
EU: Forthcoming Grand Chamber judgment on abortion
The following is a press release issued by the Registrar of the Court for the The European Court of Human Rights. It concerns a decision being issued tomorrow that has important privacy implications for women in the European Union: The European Court of Human Rights will be delivering a Grand Chamber judgment in the case of…
Ninth Circuit Issues Decision on Article III Standing (Starbucks lawsuit)
Andy Serwin provides background and analysis of yesterday’s Ninth Circuit decision that plaintiffs had Article III standing in a lawsuit stemming from a stolen Starbucks laptop: Standing is a key issue in privacy litigation, and it is an issue related to damages, though courts at times reach conclusions regarding standing that are inconsistent with their findings…