A year after a computer hacker breached Virginia’s statewide prescription drug database, investigators still don’t know who did it. Computer functions at the state Department of Health Professions, which runs the program, were disabled for weeks as a result of the April 30, 2009, cyberattack. The hacker claimed to have stolen more than 35 million…
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Stolen Praxair Healthcare computer contained client data
Praxair Healthcare Services, Inc. (Home Care Supply in New York) has posted the following notice on their web site: Praxair Healthcare Services, Inc. (Home Care Supply in New York) has notified certain clients of the theft of a company computer whose hard drive contained certain client names and other personal or health-related information. There is…
Breaches recently reported to NYS
Last year, New York State began posting logs of breach reports they receive. Entities experiencing a breach are required to inform the state how many NYS residents were involved, but are not required to indicate the total number of individuals affected. Unfortunately, their logs do not indicate precisely whether the NYS residents affected are employees,…
Announce A Data Breach And Say It’s No Big Deal?
Evan Schuman comments on the recent Blippy breach and lessons that should be learned: Data Breach Etiquette Rule #8: The moment you announce you screwed up and exposed customers’ payment data to cyberthieves is a really bad time to lecture customers that “it’s a lot less bad than it looks” and that “it’s important to…
Guernsey: Data protection law amended to include prison time
Michael Adkins of Collas Day summarizes amendments to the Data Protection (Bailiwick of Guernsey) Law. According to Wikipedia, Guernsey is a possession of the UK and not part of the UK nor part of the EU. Of particular interest to me in their amendments: Section 55(2) has been amended to offer further exemptions to people…
Famous Dave’s employee data stolen (update 2)
Here we go again…. another seemingly avoidable data theft. A Minnetonka-based employee of Famous Dave’s left some baggage in the car of a companion, including a work-related laptop computer containing a report with unencrypted employee information. As Famous Dave’s reported to the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office by letter on April 16, the laptop was…