Hunton & Williams explain: On July 27, 2017, the French Data Protection Authority (“CNIL”) imposed a fine of €40,000 on a French affiliate of the rental car company, The Hertz Corporation, for failure to ensure the security of website users’ personal data. On October 15, 2016, the CNIL was informed of the existence of a…
Category: Exposure
No one taking responsibility for exposed medical records at Forest Hill
Barb Ickes reports: More than six weeks have passed since notice was given: Children were breaking into a vacant nursing home in East Moline and stealing people’s medical records. Several city officials, including police and the mayor, were notified immediately. The Illinois Attorney General was contacted. Ditto for the Illinois Department of Public Health and…
VA: Local CPA wants medical faxes to stop
Dan Casey reports: Richard Beason’s fax machine works pretty hard, spitting out documents regularly. One that came in July 13 was from a Roanoke cardiology office. He read part of that to me over the phone. “Patient has been complaining of fatigue and daytime somnolence,” it reads. “We have obtained nocturnal pulse oximetry.” […] Beason…
TX: Scope of Cameron Co. Personal Information Breach Unknown
KRGV has a follow-up on a story they’ve been following this year. Christian Von Preysing reports: The Texas Attorney General’s Office is investigating how a Cameron County computer server with the personal information of tens of thousands of residents ended up at a flea market. In May, CHANNEL 5 NEWS reported an analysis of a…
D.C. Mistakenly Disclosed Confidential Information Of Homeless Residents To Advocacy Group
Martin Austermuhle reports: The D.C. Department of Human Services says it mistakenly disclosed confidential information of close to 1,500 households receiving housing assistance to a homeless advocacy group, which then used the information to contact those people directly — a move that the city agency says was unethical, but that the group defends as being in the…
45,000 Facebook Users Leave One-Star Ratings After Hacker’s Unjust Arrest
Catalin Cimpanu reports: Over 45,000 users have left one-star reviews on a company’s Facebook page after the business reported a security researcher to police and had him arrested in the middle of the night instead of fixing a reported bug. The arrest took place this week in Hungary after an 18-year-old found a flaw in…