Ron Hurtibise reports: Hundreds of customers of ADT Security Services were spied on through security cameras installed inside and outside of their homes, two federal lawsuits filed Monday are claiming. ADT, headquartered in Boca Raton, “failed to provide rudimentary safeguards” to prevent an employee from gaining remote access to the customers’ cameras over a seven-year period,…
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Data Leak Suggests China Had Hundreds of Thousands of Coronavirus Cases in 230 Cities
Jim Geraghty reports on a very significant data leak: This may be the most spectacularly under-discussed story of the pandemic: A dataset of coronavirus cases and deaths from the military’s National University of Defense Technology, leaked to 100Reporters, offers insight into how Beijing has gathered coronavirus data on its population. The source of the leak, who…
LU: LUL Internal justice documents leaked to press
There have never been a lot of breach reports from Luxembourg that make it to this site, but here’s one more. Sascha Georges (Radio), Andy Brücker (RTL.lu) report: Henri Eippers, spokesperson for the judicial administration, told RTL that sensitive documents had been included within the leak. The Luxemburger Wort reported on the data leak on…
PA: Ex-Geisinger employee accessed hundreds of patients’ info improperly
From their notice of May 18: WILKES-BARRE, Pa. – Geisinger Wyoming Valley Medical Center has notified certain patients that their protected health information (PHI) may have been accessed by an individual employee in a non-permitted manner. On March 20, 2020, Geisinger’s Privacy Office was alerted to a Geisinger Wyoming Valley employee possibly accessing medical records without…
PsyGenics notifies patients after discovering employee emailed patient info to her personal email account
Michigan-based PsyGenics, Inc. provides holistic mental health services to individuals diagnosed with intellectual and developmental disabilities. On March 25, during a routine security review, they discovered that an employee had emailed files to her personal email account on March 24 — and the spreadsheet contained patients protected health information: name, diagnosis code, appointment time, and…
Indiana Court of Appeals reinstates patient’s lawsuit against a hospital for breach by employee
There’s an update on a lawsuit filed in 2018 that I knew nothing about concerning a breach that occurred in 2017 that I knew nothing about. It’s been one of those days. Thankfully, reporting by Dave Stafford of the Indiana Lawyer showed up in my searches today: A divided Indiana Court of Appeals has reinstated…