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PA: UPMC Susquehanna admits employee snooped in co-worker’s medical records

Posted on November 26, 2019 by Dissent

John Beauge reports:  UMPC Susquehanna admits that one of its employees improperly looked at the protected health information of a co-worker who had missed work following a brutal assault. The admission is contained in a letter attached to the Lycoming County court complaint of Taylor Fausnaught, who is suing the health system and employee Tasha…

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NYPD Pulls Fingerprint Database Offline Due to Ransomware Scare

Posted on November 26, 2019 by Dissent

Dark Reading reports: The New York Police Department (NYPD) pulled its LiveScan fingerprint tracking system offline after a ransomware virus spread to 23 machines connected to the database over the weekend. The incident began on October 5, when a contractor installing a digital display at a Queens police academy plugged in an infected NUC mini-PC,…

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NE: Great Plains Health hit by ransomware

Posted on November 26, 2019 by Dissent

NBC reports: According to Great Plains Health officials, around 7 p.m. Monday, ransomware was detected in the Great Plains Health computer network. The hospital’s information systems team immediately identified the issue and worked through the night to minimize the impact to local health services. Read more on NBC.

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Paterson school district spent $13,800 on data breach investigation. But won’t make findings public.

Posted on November 26, 2019 by Dissent

Jayed Rahman reports on a breach that has been characterized by substandard incident response by the school district from the outset: Superintendent Eileen Shafer’s administration spent $13,816 in public funds in its investigation of the data breach that claimed tens of thousands of school district passwords, according to public documents reviewed by the Paterson Times….

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Google Fires Four Employees, Citing Data-Security Violations

Posted on November 25, 2019 by Dissent

Bloomberg reports: Google told staff on Monday that it fired four employees for what the company called “clear and repeated violations” of its data-security policies. Alphabet Inc.’s Google sent an email describing the decision to employees titled “Securing our data,” according to a copy of the document obtained by Bloomberg News. The company confirmed the…

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District Court (NY) Says It’s Powerless to Approve Class Settlement Arising Out of Data Breach Due to Lack of Art. III Cognizable Injury

Posted on November 25, 2019 by Dissent

Scott J. Hyman of Severson & Werson PC writes: In Steven v. Carlos Lopez & Assocs., No. 18-CV-6500 (JMF), 2019 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 203621 (S.D.N.Y. Nov. 22, 2019), Judge Furman declined to  approve settlement of a data breach class due to the absence of Art. III standing. From the opinion: In June 2018, an employee…

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