Benjamin Blanchet reports: Thousands of UB community members’ account information have been hacked. On Friday, UB confirmed that J. Brice Bible, vice president and chief information officer, is investigating and responding to a breach of 2,690 UBITName accounts. The breach affects 1,800 student accounts, 862 alumni accounts and 28 faculty and staff accounts, according to…
South Carolina Enacts First Insurance Data Security Act
Edward J. McAndrew of Ballard Spahr LLP writes: South Carolina has become the first state to enact a version of the Insurance Data Security Model Law, which was drafted by the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) in 2017. Governor Henry McMaster signed the South Carolina Insurance Data Security Act into law on May 14, 2018. The Act…
Hospital staff disciplined after Ed Sheeran data breach
Wil Crisp reports: One member of hospital staff has been sacked and another has been given a written warning for accessing Ed Sheeran’s personal details without authorisation, it has emerged. The singer was admitted to Ipswich Hospital on October 16 last year. Ipswich hospital said both staff members “accessed patient information without legitimate or clinical…
EPIC to DC Circuit: Informational Privacy is a Constitutional Right
From EPIC: EPIC has filed a “friend of the court” brief, joined by forty-four technical experts and legal scholars (members of the EPIC Advisory Board), in the OPM Data Breachcase. The case concerns the data breach at the US Office of Personnel and Management in 2015 that affected 22 million federal employees, their friends, and…
Vengeful DDoSer who used DDoS-for-hire services sentenced to 15 years
Update: I think my headline mislead my readers – sorry: he was also convicted of being a felon in possession of a firearm. I’m not sure how many years he got for each of the charges. May 17 – A New Mexico man was sentenced today in St. Paul, Minnesota, for directing computer attacks against…
Two Members of Syrian Electronic Army Indicted for Conspiracy
May 17 – ALEXANDRIA, Va. – A federal grand jury returned an 11-count indictment today charging two Syrian men with offenses relating to their participation in a conspiracy to engage in computer hacking as members of the “Syrian Electronic Army” or “SEA.” Ahmad ‘Umar Agha, who is known online as the “The Pro,” and Firas Dardar,…