Seen on NACS: Last Friday, NACS and a group including eight other trade associations sent a letter to every U.S. Senator articulating the priorities of the associations in the context of data breach or data security legislation. The Senate has indicated that it might consider cybersecurity information-sharing legislation on the floor this coming week and if so,…
Category: Of Note
Former DOD Contractor/Sysadmin Sentenced for Accessing and Removing Classified Information from Military Computers (updated)
Christopher R. Glenn, 34, a South Florida Resident, was sentenced on July 31, 2015, to 120 months of imprisonment to be followed by three years of supervised release by U.S. District Judge Kenneth A. Marra of the Southern District of Florida following his guilty plea for willful retention of classified national defense information under the…
Daniel Placek to plead guilty for role in creating Darkode
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…
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…