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U.S. Supreme Court Watch: Whether to Resolve Circuit Split on Standing for Data Breach Plaintiffs

Posted on February 2, 2018 by Dissent

Jonathan (Yoni) Schenker and Craig A. Newman of Patterson Belknap write: At its first conference this month, the U.S. Supreme Court will consider whether to weigh in on a Circuit split over standing to sue in the aftermath of a data breach. In CareFirst, Inc. v. Attias, No. 17-641, CareFirst is petitioning the Court to…

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Massachusetts AG Healey Launches Online Data Breach Reporting Portal

Posted on February 2, 2018 by Dissent

Note the last paragraph in the following press release. We’ll have a bit more ready transparency about breaches reported to Massachusetts, but in terms of numbers, we will only see the number of Massachusetts residents affected. That’s still better than what we have right now, though, so good news! BOSTON – Making it easier and more…

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People are taking Equifax to small-claims court via chatbot — and winning

Posted on February 1, 2018 by Dissent

Ethan Wolff-Mann reports: In September, entrepreneur Joshua Browder’s Do Not Pay chatbot website added a new skill: allowing people to sue Equifax for its monumental data breach that exposed the personal information of 145.5 million people, which included Social Security numbers. A few months later, the results are coming in and people are winning judgements…

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Forrest General Hospital patients notified after business associate breach involving protected health information

Posted on February 1, 2018 by Dissent

HORNE LLP (“HORNE”) is providing notice of an incident that occurred at HORNE and may affect the security of protected health information of certain Forrest General Hospital patients.  HORNE has access to these individuals’ personal health information as part of services HORNE provides for Forrest General Hospital with certain Medicaid reimbursement services.  While HORNE is…

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 Eastern Maine Medical Center notifying 660 cardiac ablation patients after vendor’s hard drive discovered missing or stolen

Posted on February 1, 2018 by Dissent

Meg Haskell of the Bangor Daily News reports that 660 patients at Eastern Maine Medical Center will be receiving letters that their personal information was on a hard drive that was discovered missing on December 22, 2017. The hard drive, owned and operated by an unnamed vendor, held information on patients who underwent cardiac ablation between Jan. 3,…

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Logs audit reveals The Peds in Las Vegas suffered insider-wrongdoing breach in 2014

Posted on February 1, 2018 by Dissent

There is so much wrong with this one that although I give them great credit for admitting they had a breach four years ago that they first discovered,  I find their notification quite concerning. From The Pediatric Endocrinology and Diabetes Specialists, 5235 South Durango #103, Las Vegas, NV  89113: On 11 January 2018, during an audit of…

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