Jason Roberts reports on a case in the Isle of Man: A man’s asked to represent himself as he awaits sentencing for computer hacking and data theft. 47 year old John Henry Griffin of Mona Drive in Douglas was convicted of two offences of unauthorised access of data and two of unlawful obtaining of personal…
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Ca: Sunniva reports filing of class action lawsuit regarding privacy breach
CISO Magazine reports: PRNewswire: Sunniva Inc. recently reported that it has been named in a class action lawsuit, along with its wholly owned subsidiary, Natural Health Services Ltd. (“NHS”), in connection with a privacy breach of the Electronic Medical Record (“EMR”) system used by NHS. Sunniva and NHS will defend this action. NHS identified that…
DragonEx Exchange Suffers Security Breach, Amount of Crypto Stolen Still Unknown
Peter Wind reports: Cryptocurrency exchange DragonEx says they have suffered a security breach on March 24. “On March 24th, DragonEx has encountered attacks from hackers, our users’ crypto assets and platform crypto assets were transferred and stolen. Part of the assets were retrieved back, and we will do our best to retrive back the rest…
Proposed settlement agreement between Texas and OCR concerning a 2015 breach
The following analysis in the Texas Senate suggests that OCR and Texas have been negotiating a resolution agreement since Texas first reported this breach in June, 2015. Not only does that seem like a long time for this to be going on, but if you were to look at HHS’s public breach tool to see…
Ohio dental insurance carrier disclosed breach involving some members’ information
Another day, another hack involving an employee’s email account that held protected health information? From Superior Dental Care in Ohio: March 25, 2019 04:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time CENTERVILLE, Ohio–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Superior Dental Care (SDC), a dental insurance carrier, today announced that a recent data security incident may have resulted in unauthorized access to some of…
Supreme Court rejects Amazon’s Zappos on data breach lawsuit
Melissa Locker reports: In 2012, 24 million Zappos customers found out that hackers had accessed their personal information. Since then, customers have fought to sue Zappos, Amazon’s online shoe retailer, over the data breach. Now, the U.S. Supreme Court has rejected an appeal, meaning they can move forward with a class-action lawsuit against the company for…