KTUU reports that Alaska’s Permanent Fund Dividend web site is down and will remain down for now while the state investigates and remediates a data leak. ANCHORAGE, Alaska (KTUU) — Update: 10:27 p.m.:The Alaska Department of Revenue will not reopen the Permanent Fund Dividend application website until the integrity of filer information can be guaranteed, according…
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Ohio Moves on Insurance Cybersecurity
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…
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…