Ross Todd reports: U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh’s first major ruling in data-breach lawsuits against major health insurer Anthem Inc. didn’t do much to clarify how the litigation itself will ultimately play out. […] In her decision, Koh addressed for the first time the question of whether the loss of personal information constitutes harm under…
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Judge allows some claims over Anthem data breach to go forward
Reuters is reporting: A federal judge has dismissed several claims but allowed others to go forward in a multidistrict litigation against health insurer Anthem Inc over a data breach last year that compromised about 79 million customers’ personal information. Law360 also covers the ruling, but both stories are behind paywalls, and I haven’t read the ruling…
UK: University of Greenwich data breach exposed sensitive student info online
Okay, there are breaches involving student information and then there are really bad breaches involving sensitive student info. This is one of the latter. The BBC reports that details about hundreds of London-based research students were exposed online by the University of Greenwich. Students’ names, addresses, dates of birth, mobile phone numbers and signatures were…
Privacy Claim Against Plastic Surgeon Advances
There’s a follow-up to a lawsuit previously noted on this site. Jeff D. Gorman reports: An appeals panel properly revived claims against a plastic surgeon who shared a woman’s before-and-after photos with Fox News, Utah’s highest court ruled. When Dr. Renato Saltz performed breast augmentation and abdominoplasty on her in 2006, Conilyn Judge signed a…
Hack by Anonymous created hassles for hospital patients during Flint water crisis
I don’t care WHO you are or what your cause it. Stop hacking hospitals in ways that interfere with or delay – in any way – patient care. Just stop it. Gary Ridley reports that Anonymous is being blamed for one such interruption: A cyber attack by the online “hacktivist” group Anonymous that was intended as…
Commenters on Henry Schein consent order: FTC was too lenient
Public comments on the consent order in FTC v. Henry Schein Practice Solutions are now available. The FTC will be responding to commenters, but I wanted to note one particular point raised by commenter because I hadn’t considered it when I filed my complaint with the FTC, and I think the commenters are right. Note that I did not submit…