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Counselor for North Haven Substance Abuse Center Stole Patient Identity for Cable, Internet: Police

Posted on March 22, 2019 by Dissent

NBC in Connecticut reports: Police have arrested an employee of a substance use disorder treatment center in North Haven who is accused of stealing patients’ identities to get services like cable and internet. North Haven police arrested 39-year-old Kimberly Telford, of New Haven, who they said was a counselor at an outpatient center. She is…

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Frederick Regional Health System notifies hospice patients of phishing incident

Posted on March 22, 2019 by Dissent

Frederick Regional Health System  recently disclosed a phishing incident that compromised an undiclosed number of hospice patients’ personal and protected health information.  Here is their notification, first reported by the Frederick News-Post. Frederick Regional Health System is committed to protecting the security and confidentiality of our patients’ information. Regrettably, this notice is to inform our…

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D.C. Attorney General Calls for Expanding Data Breach Notice Law

Posted on March 21, 2019 by Dissent

Daniel R. Stoller reports: The District of Columbia’s top lawyer has unveiled a proposal that would expand the city’s data breach notification law and give the attorney general’s office greater enforcement power. D.C. Attorney General Karl Racine (D) announced the Security Breach Protection Amendment Act March 21. It would regulate companies that faced “major data…

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Oregon DHS discloses breach potentially affecting 350,000 after successful phisher gained access to employees’ email accounts

Posted on March 21, 2019 by Dissent

KDRV reports: Oregon’s Department of Human Services (DHS) revealed on Thursday that the private data of more than 350,000 clients may have been accessed in a massive data breach that began earlier this year. The agency said that the breach stemmed from a phishing scam that infected the emails of nine separate employees after they…

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The Lawyer’s Duty When Client Confidential Information is Hacked From the Law Firm

Posted on March 21, 2019 by Dissent

Anton Janik, Jr. of Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard, P.L.L.C. writes: As attorneys, our livelihood is often heavily dependent upon the keeping of secrets. But in this complex electronic-data driven environment we work in, where physical security via locked doors and piercing alarms may no longer be solely sufficient to keep client confidences from…

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Settlement in 2015 UCLA Health Data Breach Class Action

Posted on March 21, 2019 by Dissent

Top Class Actions reports: A $7.5 million class action settlement has been reached, resolving claims that a July 2015 data breach exposed personal information stored by the UCLA Health Network. The UCLA Health class action settlement provides $2 million to pay for unreimbursed loss claims and preventative measure claims. In addition, UCLA Heath has agreed…

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