Joseph Cox reports: A hacker, who wishes to remain anonymous, plans to dump the apparent names, job titles, email addresses and phone numbers of over 20,000 supposed Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) employees, as well as over 9,000 alleged Department of Homeland Security (DHS) employees, Motherboard has learned. The hacker also claims to have downloaded hundreds…
Category: Of Note
LabMD’s answering brief captures how ridiculous FTC’s case was, and is
I’ve been relatively quiet on this blog recently about FTC v. LabMD, but having read the latter’s answering brief to FTC’s appeal of Judge Chappell’s initial decision, I would encourage everyone to read LabMD’s brief, uploaded to this site. It really hits all the points/issues that have concerned me since the FTC first announced enforcement action against…
UCF hit with potential class action lawsuit in Social Security hack
That was quick – but also interesting. Sean Levin reports: A former University of Central Florida student body president and member of UCF’s Board of Trustees filed a class action lawsuit against the university Friday after being victimized in UCF’s massive Social Security number hack. The lawsuit was filed in federal court, in the Orlando…
Event: 2016 PHI Protection Network Conference
I don’t get to attend many conferences as I’m self-funded, but I’ll be attending the 2016 PPN Conference in Philadelphia March 17-18. Here’s the program: Day One 8:15 – 8:30 Welcome Remarks 8:30 – 9:30 Explore Evolving Health Care Threat Gamut: Employee Negligence to Criminal Attacks Investigators from the FBI and the Justice Department will…
Administrative Law Judge rules in favor of OCR enforcement, requiring Lincare, Inc. to pay $239,800
A U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) has ruled that Lincare, Inc. (Lincare) violated the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) Privacy Rule and granted summary judgment to the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) on all issues, requiring Lincare to pay $239,800 in civil money penalties (CMPs)…
Former U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Employee Pleads Guilty to Attempted Spear-Phishing Cyber-Attack on Department of Energy Computers
There’s a follow-up to a case I first noted in May of 2015. Charles Harvey Eccleston, 62, a former employee of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), pleaded guilty yesterday to a federal offense stemming from an attempted e-mail “spear-phishing” attack in January 2015 that targeted dozens of DOE…