From EPIC.org: The D.C. Circuit has ruled that it lacks jurisdiction to hear the appeal of CareFirst customers whose data was stolen in a 2014 data breach. The lower court in Attias v. CareFirst dismissed most of the plaintiffs and claims in the case for failure to allege damages and certified the dismissed claims for appeal. The D.C. Circuit…
Argentina exposes COVID-19 health data in error
Another elastic search instance, it seems. Tim Sandle reports: Argentina’s health officials have apparently exposed personal medical data relating to some 115,000 COVID-19 quarantine exemption applicants, in what represents a major health sector data breach. Read more on Digital Journal.
Revealed: 1,400 data breaches at HSE included patient photos and medical files
Ken Foxe reports: The HSE has suffered almost 1,400 separate data breaches over the past two years involving photographing of patients, infection status being disclosed to other family members, and the discovery of confidential medical files in public places. The number of breaches showed a sharp rise between 2018, when 556 incidents were recorded, and…
Personal details of staff released in Social Protection IT breach
Mick Clifford reports: Personal files of staff and former staff members at the Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection were leaked in a data breach of one of the department’s IT systems. A malfunction in the system led to confidential information being shared with a wide number of staff in the department, the Irish Examiner has…
Ad Industry Opposes FTC’s Proposed Security Regulations For Financial Institutions
Wendy Davis reports: The Federal Trade Commission’s proposed changes to security regulations for financial institutions could also affect a broad swath of non-financial companies — including ad agencies, social networks, lead generators and ad-tech companies — according to the Association of National Advertisers. The organization is urging the FTC to refrain from imposing a slate…
National cyber agency scans the web, detects scores of exposed Israeli databases
Omer Kabir reports: A scanning and detecting system developed by the Israel National Cyber Directorate (INCD) has discovered 145 at risk databases 16 of them containing extremely sensitive private and business information, according to details provided to Calcalist by the government agency. Following the detection, the INCD reached out to the organizations that own and…