Josephine Cicchetti of Carlton Fields writes: Ohio has joined South Carolina in becoming the next state to adopt a variation of the NAIC Insurance Data Security Model Law (“MDL-668”). This legislation makes a number of changes to Ohio’s insurance law, including the addition of a new Chapter 3965, which establishes “standards for data security and…
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Six years after massive data breach, SC still fixing security, but ends victim credit monitoring
Andy Shain reports: Six years after one of the nation’s worst data breaches, South Carolina efforts to protect computer records from hackers remain a work in progress, but that did not prevent the end of free credit report monitoring for millions of taxpayers whose information was stolen. […] No arrests have been made in the…
State Data Breach Notification Laws: 2018 in Review
Caleb Skeath and Brooke Kahn of Covington & Burling provide a useful recap of changes in 2018 that will impact us in 2019: …. Following up on our global year-end review of major privacy and cybersecurity developments, we’ve summarized the major developments and trends observed with regards to state data breach notification laws over the past…
MO: Choice Rehabilitation notifies patients after hack of corporate email account
The following notice from Choice Rehabilitation is dated December 18, 2018, but first appeared in STLToday on December 31, 2018: December 18, 2018 Choice Rehabilitation of Creve Coeur, MO notified more than 500 residents of a breach of unsecured resident health information after discovering the following event: On November 7, 2018, Choice Rehabilitation, (Choice) discovered…
Dental Center of Northwest Ohio’s notifies patients after IT vendor Arakÿta experiences ransomware incident
TOLEDO, Ohio, Dec. 28, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — Dental Center of Northwest Ohio (the “Dental Center”) is providing notice to current and former patients and employees of a recent incident involving personal information. To date, the Dental Center has not received any reports that personal information has been misused as a result of this incident. On or about September 1, 2018, the…
ID: School district suspends business manager, fraud investigation continues
Jeanette Boner reports: The Teton School District Board met in an executive session for two and half hours this morning to discuss the ongoing investigation stemming from last week’s revelation that more than $784,000 was paid out to fraudulent account. Read more on Teton Valley News. So if you read the prior coverage, too, it appears…