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Update: All 62,000 workers at UPMC may now be victims of data breach

Posted on May 30, 2014 by Dissent

Robert Zullo reports: The scope of a data breach at UPMC that may have exposed Social Security numbers, addresses, salary and bank account information to identity thieves has now widened to potentially include all of its 62,000 workers, the health-care conglomerate informed employees in an e-mail today. “Outside of the 817 confirmed victims of tax…

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Advocate Health Escapes Class Action Over Data Breach

Posted on May 28, 2014 by Dissent

Law360 reports: An Illinois state court on Tuesday dismissed a putative class action claiming Advocate Health and Hospitals Group was responsible for breaching class members’ privacy when four laptop computers containing patient information were stolen from administrative offices.The court ruled the plaintiffs couldn’t show they’d actually been harmed or that their data was stolen or…

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Los Angeles County moves to require computer encryption after medical data breach

Posted on May 28, 2014 by Dissent

Abby Sewell reports: Following a break-in at a county health contractor’s office that led to the theft of computers containing personal information about more than 342,000 patients, Los Angeles County supervisors moved to tighten protocols for protecting data. The county already requires that workers’ laptops be encrypted. The supervisors voted Tuesday to extend that policy…

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Another North Shore University Hospital employee charged as part of ID theft ring

Posted on May 24, 2014 by Dissent

CBS New York reports that another former employee at North Shore University Hospital has been charged with identity theft. Latoya Talbert, 24, has been accused of stealing the identities so she could go shopping. Talbert was arraigned in Nassau County for her alleged involvement in an identity theft ring that began in 2011. Read more…

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Lawsuit against Eisenhower Medical Center dismissed on appeal

Posted on May 23, 2014 by Dissent

There’s an update to a lawsuit that followed a breach involving a computer stolen from Eisenhower Medical Center in 2011. As reported at the time, the types of unencrypted patient information on the computer was confined to an electronic index patient names, ages, dates of birth, the last four digits of the Social Security numbers…

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FTC vs. LabMD hearing starts

Posted on May 20, 2014 by Dissent

Opening statements were held today in FTC vs. LabMD, one of only two data security enforcement cases  that have not resulted in a consent order to settle charges. FTC attorney Alain Sheer provided the overview of the FTC’s complaint, alleging that LabMD failed to have a reasonable and appropriate data security program. He was only just into his…

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