A U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) has ruled that The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center (MD Anderson) violated the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) Privacy and Security Rules and granted summary judgment to the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) on all issues, requiring…
New Charges in Huge C.I.A. Breach Known as Vault 7
There’s a huge update in a significant case noted last month on this blog. Adam Goldman reports: Federal prosecutors have charged a former software engineer at the center of a huge C.I.A. breach with stealing classified information, theft of government property and lying to the F.B.I. The engineer, Joshua A. Schulte, 29, of New York,…
Asylum seeker spreadsheet data blurt: UK Home Office loses appeal to limit claimants
Rebecca Hill reports: The British Home Office’s bid to reduce the number of potential claimants from a 2013 data breach that exposed the personal details of thousands of asylum seekers has been knocked back by the Court of Appeal. Rather than simply publishing overall statistics on the family returns process – the system by which…
Ca: Data breach at CarePartners
Jennifer Hamilton-McCharles reports: One of the province’s most well-known home care service providers has fallen victim of a cyber-attack. The attack has breached CarePartners‘ computer system and as a result patient and employee information held in that system, including personal health and financial information, has been inappropriately accessed, according to Ontario’s Local Health Integration Network….
Changes to Louisiana’s Data Breach Notification Law Go Into Effect August 1
Joseph J. Lazzarotti, Jason C. Gavejian, and Maya Atrakchi of Jackson Lewis write that changes to Louisiana’s data breach notification law (Act 382) go into effect on August 1 of this year. Those changes include expansion of the definition of personal information, requirements that notification be made no later than 60 days from discovery of…
Impatient former Hong Kong library worker arrested after stealing customers’ personal data to borrow books faster
I know, I know. It’s a crime and it’s very very wrong, but I’d be curious to meet this woman and ask her about what appears to be her voracious reading habits. Danny Mok of the South China Morning Post recently reported: A bibliophile who worked in a Hong Kong public library has been arrested for using…