Oh dear. When I saw Verity Medical Foundation listed on HHS’s public breach tool this month with more than 14,000 patients impacted, I thought it might be just an updated report for the two incidents that they had disclosed in January. But no. It appears that Verity had yet another breach. Like the first two,…
Ohio dental insurance carrier disclosed breach involving some members’ information
Another day, another hack involving an employee’s email account that held protected health information? From Superior Dental Care in Ohio: March 25, 2019 04:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time CENTERVILLE, Ohio–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Superior Dental Care (SDC), a dental insurance carrier, today announced that a recent data security incident may have resulted in unauthorized access to some of…
Supreme Court rejects Amazon’s Zappos on data breach lawsuit
Melissa Locker reports: In 2012, 24 million Zappos customers found out that hackers had accessed their personal information. Since then, customers have fought to sue Zappos, Amazon’s online shoe retailer, over the data breach. Now, the U.S. Supreme Court has rejected an appeal, meaning they can move forward with a class-action lawsuit against the company for…
N.W.T. gov’t and former employee settle case over alleged privacy breach
Sidney Cohen reports: A former manager in the N.W.T. Justice Department has been ordered to destroy all records he has about his old colleagues, putting an end to a months-long skirmish over employee privacy between him and the territorial government. “[The government] sued me, we settled, I think I’m done … for now,” Donn MacDougall…
Hackers Hijacked ASUS Software Updates to Install Backdoors on Thousands of Computers
Kim Zetter reports: Researchers at cybersecurity firm Kaspersky Lab say that ASUS, one of the world’s largest computer makers, was used to unwittingly install a malicious backdoor on thousands of its customers’ computers last year after attackers compromised a server for the company’s live software update tool. The malicious file was signed with legitimate ASUS…
AU: Prize backs UQ physicist’s data security quest
A University of Queensland physicist will use her share of a $1 million prize to advance the development of revolutionary data privacy systems. The Westpac Scholars Trust today announced Dr Jacqui Romero as one of two 2019 Westpac Research Fellows. Dr Romero and health researcher Dr Meru Sheel from Australian National University will share $1…