Maria Daisy reports: Prosecutors in Albania arrested four people on Friday for stealing the personal data of more than 630,000 people which then ended up in the public domain, including salary figures and car registrations. Two of the arrested men were IT technicians working at the state tax office and two others, who had bought…
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COVID Test Data Breach at British School
Sarah Coble reports: A mix-up at a school in Worcestershire, England, caused parents to receive the COVID-19 test results of other people’s children. The data breach, reported today by the Evesham Journal, occurred at co-educational secondary school and sixth-form college The De Montfort School (TDMS) in Evesham, which is part of the Four Stones Multi Academy…
Jefferson Surgical Clinic notifies 174,769 about June, 2021 data breach
If a covered entity detects a breach at the beginning of June 2021 but doesn’t notify patients until January 2022, will HHS think this is just fine? What if there was no encryption of data involved? Is it acceptable to take 7 months to notify patients if there are no unusual circumstances or request from…
The Impact of Data Security Incident Trends on Commercial Transactions: Part III – Vendor Agreement Resolutions for 2022
Craig Carpenter and Erika Vela of BakerHostetler write: As the BakerHostetler Digital Risk Advisory and Cybersecurity team wraps up the 2022 edition of annual Data Security Incident Response (DSIR) Report, we take one last look at the findings in the 2021 edition of the report to prepare our New Year’s resolutions of a data privacy and security attorney for…
Health Ministry Responds to Massive Data Leak of Medical Records of Indonesian Patients
Tempo.co reports: Reports have emerged about an alleged massive data leak of Indonesian hospital patients’ medical information being sold in an illegal internet forum. Hackers claimed to have breached the Indonesian Health Ministry centralized server to obtain the data. According to a report by Antaranews, the data that were sold in the dark web contains 720 GB of personal medical…
Sg: OG department store customers’ personal details leaked in data breach
Rosalind Ang reports: There has been a leak of OG department store customers’ personal data such as names, mobile numbers and dates of birth, said the retailer on Thursday (Jan 6). In a statement to OG members, the department store said it was notified on Tuesday about the data breach, which affected members who are in either…