PTI reports: Mobile wallet company Paytm has suspended its app that allowed small shopkeepers to accept payment through cards amid ongoing cash crunch, citing risks to customer data and privacy. The new feature was designed to eliminate the need for a physical point-of-sale (PoS) terminal or a card swipe machine, instead helping small shopkeepers use their smartphones…
Category: Commentaries and Analyses
Over 300 data leaks at Dutch hospitals this year
DutchNews.nl reports: Dutch hospitals have reported 304 potential leaks of sensitive information to the Dutch data protection agency DPA since the beginning of this year, Trouw said on Thursday. Reporting has been compulsory for a wide variety of organisations since the start of this year. The agency has refused to give any information about the…
IG: IRS Employees Sent Unencrypted Emails Containing Personal Data of Thousands of Taxpayers
Ian Smith reports: A recent report from the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA) found that IRS employees sent unencrypted emails which contained 8,031 different taxpayers’ personally identifiable information. According to the report, TIGTA found 326 unencrypted emails containing taxpayer data. 275 of the emails were sent internally within IRS, while 51 emails were…
LabMD: Is the FTC’s data security joy ride finally coming to an end?
Here’s your must-read today on LabMD’s challenge to the FTC by Gus Hurwitz, who, like this blogger, has been criticizing the FTC’s over-zealous enforcement for the past three years. Unlike this blogger, however, Gus is actually a lawyer. 🙂 When LabMD prevails in the Eleventh Circuit, as I am hopeful they will, I will talk to Gus…
Protenus’s October Breach Barometer is available
As it has done in past months, Protenus has compiled a monthly report on health data breaches in the U.S. that were disclosed during October. Their analyses are based on data and information provided by this site and blogger. Of special note: in the past two months, we have now learned of two incidents affecting at…
NHS patients being put ‘at risk’ because of cybersecurity flaws
Tom Cheshire reports: A Sky News investigation has discovered the NHS trusts putting patients at risk by not protecting their data online. Seven NHS trusts, serving more than two million people, spent nothing on cybersecurity in 2015. Sky News worked with security experts to find serious flaws in their cybersecurity, which could be easily exploited by…