The Office of Inadequate Security
Irvin Jackson reports: Parties involved in the federal Change Healthcare data breach lawsuits have been ordered to meet separately with a U.S. Magistrate Judge over the next two months, to discuss the most effective structure for settlement talks and the optimum timing for when negotiations should begin that may provide payouts to millions of Americans. The potential…
In April 2019, DataBreaches reported that Gulf Coast Pain Consultants, LLC d/b/a Clearway Pain Solutions Institute had recently notified patients after discovering on February 20 that their EMR system had been accessed by a third party without authorization. At the time, they disclosed that 35,000 patients had been affected but they did not indicate that…
Of note from Hunton Andrews Kurth: On November 6, 2024, a Texas state district court jury found that a large e-discovery vendor violated Title 7, Chapter 33 of the Texas Penal Code, which provides that accessing a computer without its owner’s permission is a Class B misdemeanor. This case highlights the importance for e-discovery vendors…
Jeremiah Fowler reports finding another exposed database with a lot of personal information. This one may belong to SL Data Services, LLC, though Fowler notes that the folders inside it were named with separate website domains. “It appears that the company operates a network of an estimated 16 different websites, offering a range of information…
Waqas reports: As the holiday season kicks off, a ransomware attack on Blue Yonder, the world’s leading supply chain management software provider, has disrupted operations for Starbucks and other retailers worldwide. The attack, reportedly, affected the private cloud computing service Blue Yonder provided to some customers including Starbucks, but not the company’s public cloud environment. It is…
NEW YORK – New York Attorney General Letitia James and New York State Department of Financial Services (DFS) Superintendent Adrienne A. Harris today secured $11.3 million in penalties from two auto insurance companies, the Government Employees Insurance Company (GEICO) and The Travelers Indemnity Company (Travelers), for having poor data security which led to the personal information…