With all the wildly erroneous claims made by people about what is covered by HIPAA, here’s a great explainer by attorney Jeff Drummond on exactly what kinds of entities ARE covered by HIPAA (Spoiler alert: yes, your local bar CAN ask you your vaccination status without violating HIPAA because they are not covered by HIPAA)….
Category: Of Note
Hackers to face 25 years in jail for cyber attacks on Australia’s national infrastructure
Zach Marzouk reports: Hackers could face up to 25 years in jail if found guilty of cyber offences against Australia’s critical infrastructure, under proposed changes introduced by the government today. The government tabled the Crimes Legislation Amendment (Ransomware Action Plan) Bill 2022 in a bid to modernise criminal offences and procedures to respond to the threat of ransomware….
Cyber-attack on ICRC: What we know
From the International Committee of the Red Cross, an update posted today begins: Update: 16 February 2022, 9 AM CET. Nearly a month has passed since we determined that servers hosting personal data belonging to more than 515,000 people worldwide were hacked in a sophisticated cyber-attack. We are now in a position to share some…
Indicators of Compromise Associated with BlackByte Ransomware
From a newly released Joint Cybersecurity Advisory: SUMMARY This joint Cybersecurity Advisory was developed by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the U.S. Secret Service (USSS) to provide information on BlackByte ransomware. As of November 2021, BlackByte ransomware had compromised multiple US and foreign businesses, including entities in at least three US critical infrastructure…
MO: St. Louis Post-Dispatch reporter won’t be charged in F12 “hack” case
KMTZ reports some welcome news: A Cole County prosecutor will not file charges against a reporter from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch for the alleged data breach of the Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education website. Prosecutor Locke Thompson said in a release while reviewing the case that it would not be in the best…
Ca: Military sexual misconduct settlement hit by privacy breach
Lee Berthiaume reports: The company administering the federal government’s $900-million settlement deal with Armed Forces members and veterans who experienced sexual misconduct while in uniform has inadvertently released private information about dozens of claimants. Epiq Class Action Services Canada confirmed the privacy breach on Wednesday, after a veteran said she had received an e-mail last…