Attorney General Herbert H. Slatery III announced Wednesday that a U.S. District Court judge has signed a consent judgment negotiated by 16 states’ attorneys general and Medical Informatics Engineering, Inc. This case was the nation’s first-ever multistate lawsuit involving a HIPAA-related data breach. The lawsuit, led by Indiana, was filed in December of 2018 against…
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People Inc. reports data security breach involving clients’ personal info
Harold McNeil reports: People Inc. said it was the target of a data security breach that involved protected health information of some of its current and former clients. People Inc. learned that two employees’ email accounts were breached and their emails contained personal information about clients, including names, addresses, Social Security numbers, financial account information,…
Checkers Drive-In Restaurants, Inc. Notifies Checkers and Rally Guests About Data Security Issue
TAMPA, Fla. May 29, 2019 /PRNewswire/ — Checkers Drive-In Restaurants, Inc. (“Checkers”) announced today that it is notifying guests about a data security issue involving malware at certain Checkers and Rally’s locations. After discovering the issue, Checkers quickly engaged leading data security experts to conduct an extensive investigation and coordinated with affected restaurants and federal law…
OH: Personal information of more than 2400 TriHealth patients wrongly shared with student
Max Londberg reports: The personal information corresponding to more than 2,000 TriHealth patients was shared with a student mentee who was not authorized to view the data. The medical system announced the discovery Friday afternoon in a press release. Shared data included patients’ first and last names, ZIP codes, ethnicity, dates of birth and cancer…
First American Financial Corp. Leaked Hundreds of Millions of Title Insurance Records
Brian Krebs reports: The Web site for Fortune 500 real estate title insurance giant First American Financial Corp. [NYSE:FAF] leaked hundreds of millions of documents related to mortgage deals going back to 2003, until notified this week by KrebsOnSecurity. The digitized records — including bank account numbers and statements, mortgage and tax records, Social Security…
District Court Finds no CFAA Violation where Employee Shares Confidential Company Information with Competitor
Jason C. Gavejian and Maya Atrakchi of JacksonLewis write: A district court in Tennessee recently concluded in Wachter Inc. v. Cabling Innovations LLC that two former employees who allegedly shared confidential company information found on the company’s computer system with a competitor did not violate the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA). The CFAA expressly…