Lisa O’Brien reports: The NHS trust which runs hospitals in Sandwell and Birmingham experienced a ‘significant IT data loss incident’ which ‘impacted upon staff and patient care’, a health chief has revealed. It is understood the incident happened last month and is said to have ‘disrupted’ over 20 systems across Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals…
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Fired University of Utah researcher exposes breaches in student data
Chris Jones and Nadia Pflaum of KUTV report: Dr. Judith Zimmerman knew she was fired for doing the right thing. She was the lead investigator on a research project on autism in children, which she spearheaded at the Utah Department of Health. She brought that project, and a very sensitive database of data, to the…
Cyber attack on UK’s Defence Academy had ‘significant’ impact, officer in charge at the time reveals
Deborah Haynes reports: A cyber attack – possibly by China or Russia – hit the academic arm of the UK’s Ministry of Defence and had a “significant” impact, the officer in charge at the time has revealed. Air Marshal Edward Stringer, who retired from the armed forces in August, said the “sophisticated” hack – discovered…
Review of U.S. State Law Developments in 2021
Madeline Salinas and Libbie Canter of Covington and Burling write: As we look ahead at 2022, we here provide a quick wrap-up of key developments for U.S. state privacy laws in the past year: California Privacy Protection Agency is appointed and commences rulemaking. In June, the new California Privacy Protection Agency (CPPA) held its inaugural public meeting,…
Morgan Stanley to pay $60 million to resolve data security lawsuit
Jonathan Stempel reports: Morgan Stanley agreed to pay $60 million to settle a lawsuit by customers who said the Wall Street bank exposed their personal data when it twice failed to properly retire some of its older information technology. A preliminary settlement of the proposed class action on behalf of about 15 million customers was…
Tokyo police lose 2 floppy disks containing personal info on 38 public housing applicants
Here’s one I missed, but luckily Zack Whittaker noted it in his weekly newsletter (and if you don’t get his newsletter, you should subscribe!) The Mainichi reported: The Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) has lost two floppy disks containing personal information on 38 people, the department announced on Dec. 27 The MPD said the floppy disks…