Lia Marie Brooks and Peter A. Nelson have an article on Harleysville Insurance Co. v. Holding Funeral Home, Inc. that I nearly skipped. I’m glad I didn’t, because it may have some applicability to cases where entities leave confidential or protected health information on public FTP servers without any password protection and then try to…
Category: Commentaries and Analyses
Protenus releases February health data breach statistics
So what kind of month was February for breaches in the healthcare sector? Protenus has released its February Breach Barometer based on incidents compiled by this site. As a reminder: their analyses do not rely solely on HHS’s public breach tool. As in past months, insider incidents – whether accidental or intentional wrongdoing – comprised…
AU: NSW hospital patients not told their medical records were found in public areas
Nick Dole reports on the lack of transparency and notification following breaches of health data in NSW: NSW hospital patients have had their confidential details compromised on multiple occasions, including medical records being found in a public carpark. Many of the most serious privacy breaches have been reported in the Central Coast Local Health District,…
FBI agent took down teen hacker by pretending to be a reporter – and media didn’t like that
Raphael Satter of AP reports: The young hacker was told in no uncertain terms: You are safe with me. “I am not trying to find out your true identity,” AP journalist Norm Weatherill assured the teenager in an online chat. “As a member of the Press, I would rather not know who you are as…
NYS Tax Department: 65 companies have been victimized by tax scams
WHEC reports: The state Tax Department is warning companies and workers after it says 65 companies with New York employees have been victimized by tax scams. As a result, 7,100 Social Security numbers across the state have been compromised, the department says. Read more on WHEC.
Samsung Leaking Customer Info, Tells Customer to Take It Up with the Shipper?!
From the add-this-to-the-list-of-concerns-about-Samsung dept. Matt Metzger writes: About four months ago, I ordered a new TV directly from Samsung’s online store. A few days later, I received a tracking link via email. http://www.agsystems.com/listhawb.asp?searchtype=hawb&searchvalue=1138977 Reusing Tracking Numbers When I first received the link, it showed an order that wasn’t my own. I assumed there was some sort of…