John S. Pruitt, Mary Jane Wilson-Bilik and John Allen Zumpetta of Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP write: On August 17, the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (the NAIC) Cybersecurity (EX) Task Force (the Task Force) released for comment a revised draft Insurance Data Security Model Law (the Model Law). This Model Law purports to “establish exclusive standards…
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Another lawsuit filed under CMIA fails
One of the larger breaches in 2014 involved a Los Angeles County contractor, Sutherland Healthcare Solutions. The theft of some of their computer equipment with unencrypted patient identity and clinical information was disclosed in March 2014, and within days, a potential class action lawsuit had been filed. The breach impacted approximately 3420,000 patients of the Los Angeles…
Latest update to HHS breach tool discloses previously unknown breaches
HHS has another big update to their public-facing breach tool. While many of the incidents they have added have already been noted on this blog, there are some ones that have not been mentioned here previously. Here are the incidents we did know about already (links are to previous coverage of the incident on PHIprivacy.net):…
Where there's a breach, there's a lawsuit
Abby Sewell reports: A patient whose personal information was stolen in a break-in at a medical billing contractor’s office in Torrance has filed a class-action lawsuit against the company and Los Angeles County. Two Los Angeles law firms filed a complaint Friday in Superior Court. The suit was initially filed on behalf of a single…
Over 168,000 Los Angeles County patients' data on computer stolen from billing vendor's office
The personal information of about 168,500 patients of the Los Angeles County departments of Health Services and Public Health was stolen during the theft of computer equipment from a firm that contracts with the county, authorities announced today. The theft took place Feb. 5 at the Torrance office of Sutherland Healthcare Solutions, Inc., which contracts…
Forbes Breach Email Statistics
Total of 1,056,986 E-mail’s Found are unique. Total of 111,735 E-mail Providers 564 FORBES.COM 844 .GOV 14,572 .EDU Below is a list of all email providers that have 2 or more in the breach. (full list here) Article: https://datalossdb.org gmail.com: [407769] yahoo.com: [181617] hotmail.com: [86667] aol.com: [25032] justafou.com: [20092] asertol1.co.tv: [17472] comcast.net: [11368] live.com: [9842] xamog.com:…