Over on phiprivacy.net, I had noted that Commissioner Julie Brill had recused herself from the LabMD case after they moved to disqualify her over public statements she made. Somehow I missed a development in the Wyndam case, even though Law360 had first reported it on January 2. Now Stacey Brandenburg of Zwillgen reports that Judge Salas agreed to…
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Thousands of Pennsylvania dental patients may be at lifetime risk of ID theft after patient database is uploaded to torrent sites
Dave Bohman of WNEP recently reported on a breach involving Lanap & Dental Implants of Pennsylvania. The breach involved someone uploading a copy of the dental group’s practice management software (Dentrix) to a torrent site. The upload didn’t just contain the software, however. It also contained unencrypted patient record databases. As a result, over 11,000 patients – mostly…
Does a presidential executive order on cybersecurity get a hotel chain off the FTC hook for its breaches?
I occasionally check the docket for FTC’s lawsuit against Wyndham over the multiple breaches they experienced. A story in my news reader today about how Ben Rothke of Wyndham Worldwide gave a talk on “The five habits of highly secure organizations” struck me as somewhat ironic, and I decided to see where the lawsuit stood. Of…