Brad Palmer reports: Southern Illinois Healthcare is notifying more than 600 patients who might be impacted by a breach of their information. SIH Privacy Officer Marcia Matthias says it was an isolated incident involving the misdirection of data to other HIPPA-governed [sic] medical facilities by a third party vendor. SIH has a business relationship with…
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Plaintiffs’ Counsel Announce $115 Million Proposed Class Action Settlement in Anthem Data Breach Litigation
A proposed settlement has been reached in a class action lawsuit over the 2015 cyberattack of health insurer Anthem, Inc., involving the theft of the personal information of 78.8 million people. The $115 million settlement, if approved by the Court, will be the largest data breach settlement in history. Attorneys from Altshuler Berzon, Cohen Milstein,…
Judges Question FTC Data Security Standard at LabMD Argument
Jimmy Koo reports: The Federal Trade Commission’s data security enforcement standard came under fire June 22 from a panel of federal appeals court judges ( LabMD, Inc. v. FTC , 11th Cir., No. 16-16270, oral argument 6/21/17 ). As predicted, the level of harm required for the FTC to act was “front and center” during…
Google Will Now Remove Private Medical Records From Search Results
Mark Bergen reports: Alphabet Inc.’s Google has quietly decided to scrub an entire category of online content — personal medical records — from its search results, a departure from its typically hands-off approach to policing the web. Google lists the information it removes from its search results on its policy page. On Thursday, the website…
Hackers Altered 2016 Voter Rolls and Stole Private Data on U.S. Citizens
Jacob Weindling reports: TIME dropped a bombshell report today that should be getting more attention than it currently is. Here is the tl;dr version of a story that you should read in its entirety. The hacking of state and local election databases in 2016 was more extensive than previously reported, including at least one successful…
Airway Oxygen notifies 500,000 patients after ransomware attack
Earlier this month, Purity Cylinder/Airway Oxygen in Michigan reported a breach to the Vermont Attorney General’s Office. According to their notification, on April 18, they discovered that ransomware had been installed on their network. There was no evidence, they say, that any protected health information was actually accessed or acquired, but they notified those who…