From the Mail Foreign Service: The head of an Indian outsourcing company has been arrested for selling confidential medical records of patients treated at one of Britain’s top private hospitals. Police arrested Vikas Dhairyashil Bansode on Tuesday after an undercover investigation revealed the records were being sold for as little as £4 each. Hundreds of…
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Resource: Comparing breach notification laws
“International Security Breach Notification Survey” is a new resource prepared by Foley & Larnder LLP and Eversheds LLP, November 2009. The report summarizes and compares the laws in various countries in tabular format, with comparisons based on: Notice Requirements (to who – (i)individual and (ii)regulator?), Timing of Disclosure (does it have to be done in…
Four indicted for RBS WorldPay hack
Sergei Tsurikov, 25, of Tallinn, Estonia; Viktor Pleshchuk, 28, of St. Petersburg, Russia; Oleg Covelin, 28, of Chisinau, Moldova; and a person known only as “Hacker 3;” have been indicted by a federal grand jury in Atlanta, Ga., on charges of hacking into a computer network operated by the Atlanta-based credit card processing company RBS…
Heartland revises results for third quarter due to breach costs
Breach costs force a revision in estimates. From their press release: …. subsequent to the release of its earnings for the third quarter on November 3, 2009, Heartland engaged in settlement discussions that resulted in an increase in settlement offers made to certain claimants in an attempt to resolve certain of the claims asserted against…
UK: Consultation paper on monetary penalties for data breaches
In Parliament yesterday, the Minister of State, Ministry of Justice, Mr. Michael Wills said: I am today publishing a consultation paper entitled “Civil Monetary Penalties, Setting the Maximum Penalty”. The paper explains the Government’s proposal to set the maximum penalty for civil monetary penalties at £500,000. Civil monetary penalties, as set out under sections 55A-E…
CT AG “appalled” at delay in Anthem data theft
The state attorney general is demanding Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield of Connecticut provide more answers and identity-theft protection for nearly 19,000 health professionals whose confidential data was on a stolen laptop computer. Attorney General Richard Blumenthal, at a press conference today, said Anthem and one of its Blue Cross Blue Shield affiliates may have…