The NYS Attorney General’s has announced a settlement following a data breach I never heard about. And I’m guessing that some people will grumble that the monetary penalty is too light. NEW YORK – Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman today announced a settlement with Doritex Corp. and its website developer Kallus Opraments, involving the disclosure…
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NY: Focused Technologies Imaging Services to pay more than $3 million for illegal and covert outsourcing of 16 million fingerprint cards to India for data entry
New York State Inspector General Catherine Leahy Scott and Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman today announced that an Albany-area tech company and its principals will pay more than $3 million in fines for violating State contract security protocols by outsourcing millions of fingerprint records containing sensitive personal information to a company in India for data…
Illinois Valley Podiatry Group warned 26,588 patients after contractor hacked (Update1)
So I had missed this item from the Journal Star on March 8th: The Illinois Valley Podiatry Group, 3322 W. Willow Knolls Drive, has announced that it has became aware of unauthorized access to its computer records, believed to have taken place last year. The names, addresses and Social Security numbers of patients may have…
NJ: Virtua Medical Group notifies 1,654 patients whose information was exposed on Internet (updated)
On March 11, Burlington County Times reported: Virtua Medical Group, the network of doctors exclusively affiliated with the South Jersey health system, reported Friday that patient information — including names and treatments over a five-year period — was accidentally released and viewable on the Internet in January. The medical group learned on Jan. 21 that…
German cops in India to probe data-breach case
Dwaipayan Ghosh reports: The CID, along with German cops, is raiding several places in Salt Lake and New Town for the past 48 hours in connection with a fraud worth several crores involving a German firm. The accused had allegedly set up an IT firm in Sector V and was providing technical support to the…
North Memorial Hospital settles HHS charges for $1.55M
First: refresh your memory of a 2011 breach involving Accretive Health, a business associate of North Memorial Hospital. Then read HHS’s press release how that breach just cost North Memorial Hospital $1.55 million, and why: $1.55 million settlement underscores the importance of executing HIPAA business associate agreements North Memorial Health Care of Minnesota has agreed to pay…