Cary Spivak and Lucas Daprile report: A computer owned by Daniel Placek — a suburban Milwaukee man who helped create an international malware marketplace — contained 74,190 credit card numbers and 297 bank account numbers when it was seized during an FBI raid in 2010, documents filed in federal court Friday state. The information is contained in…
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North East Medical Services notifies over 69,000 patients whose information was on stolen laptop
On the evening of July 11th, 69,246 patients of North East Medical Services (NEMS) in San Francisco had their protected health information stolen because an employee left their work laptop with unencrypted PHI in the trunk of their car. The theft was reported to the police and the employee reset the login and password remotely, but the theft…
Breach litigation standing — the bell tolls for Clapper
There have been a number of law firms blogging about the Seventh Circuit’s opinion in the Neiman Marcus lawsuit as a game-changer in data breach litigation. Here’s one commentary by Taylor Brooke Concannon and Peter Sloan of Husch Blackwell: For years, federal district courts have reliably dismissed data breach consumer class actions at the outset, citing the…
South Korea: Major health data breach hits sector ‘weak’ in compliance
Rocio Galeote has more on the case in South Korea that involves the allegedly illegal sale of prescription information to IMS Health Korea and the transfer of that info to IMS Health in the U.S., etc. The breach impacts 43 – 44 million Koreans. I still haven’t seen anyone name the systems developer who’s also charged…
China-Tied Hackers That Hit U.S. Said to Breach United Airlines
Michael Riley and Jordan Robertson report: The hackers who stole data on tens of millions of U.S. insurance holders and government employees in recent months breached another big target at around the same time — United Airlines. United, the world’s second-largest airline, detected an incursion into its computer systems in May or early June, said…
Federal Court certifies privacy class action by Medical Marijuana patients against Health Canada
HALIFAX, July 28, 2015 /CNW/ – The Federal Court of Canada has certified a class action commenced on behalf of more than 40,000 medical marijuana licensees alleging that Health Canada violated their privacy. In November 2013, Health Canada sent notices to over 40,000 participants of the Marihuana Medical Access Program (MMAP) to advise of changes to regulations governing the use…