Greg Meckbach reports: Aviva Canada has a duty to defend a nurse who is being sued for privacy breach by a patient whose medical records were accessed in a Simcoe, Ontario hospital, the Court of Appeal for Ontario ruled in a decision released March 28. The patient, known in court records as J.L., is suing…
JP: Massive data leak from government ministries
NHK reports: The Japanese government’s cybersecurity center has warned that the email addresses and passwords of thousands of ministry employees have been leaked and are being sold on the Internet. The National Center of Incident Readiness and Strategy for Cybersecurity issued the warning to all ministries on Tuesday. It said a massive amount of personal…
Ca: Information breach at Royal Inland Hospital as binder with patient data goes missing
Dale Bass reports: John Ranta isn’t happy about a privacy breach at Royal Inland Hospital. The mayor of Cache Creek and former chair of the Thompson-Nicola Hospital District board said he was given a copy of a letter sent to one of the people in his community from RIH, advising that a binder with patient…
Alabama Becomes 50th State to Enact Data Breach Notification Law
Edward McAndrew of Ballard Spahr LLP writes: Alabama has officially joined the data breach notification party. Alabama Governor Kay Ivey signed Act No. 2018-396 into law on March 28, 2018. The law will take effect on May 1, 2018. Although it was last in the country to enact such a data security law, Alabama’s new…
FINRA, State Regulators Accused of Letting Sensitive Data Go Public
A whistle-blower is accusing some key financial regulators of allowing sensitive broker information to become readily accessible, even as industry watchdogs emphasized the need for companies to protect client data. According to a complaint lodged with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, personal data such as brokerage account numbers provided to an industry-funded regulator have…
Data Protection Commissioner to investigate alleged INM breach
The Data Protection Commissioner intends to investigate whether personal data was accessed in an alleged data breach at Independent News & Media. In a statement, Commissioner Helen Dixon added that she would be investigating whether data was it processed in accordance with data protection legislation. Read more on RTÉ .