March 6 – Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman today announced a settlement with healthcare provider EmblemHealth and wholly owned subsidiary Group Health Incorporated (“EmblemHealth”) after the company admitted a mailing error that resulted in 81,122 social security numbers being disclosed on a mailing. In addition to paying a $575,000 penalty, EmblemHealth agreed to implement a Corrective…
CO: Front Range Dermatology Associates notifies patients of insider-wrongdoing incident
Tommy Wood reports: Front Range Dermatology Associates, which has locations in Greeley, Loveland Fort Collins and Fort Morgan, suffered a breach of medical records in January, the company announced in a news release. The compromised data includes patients’ names, medical record numbers, dates of service, billing codes, names of insurance companies and dates and amounts…
Pinelands Regional School District Computers Hit by Emotet Virus
Rick Mellerup reports: The Pinelands Regional School District is grappling with a crippling virus. Don’t worry, you don’t have to keep your kids home from school. It’s a computer virus, a malware program that has infected many of the district’s computers. For example, the last time the board of education’s budget committee met, it wasn’t…
Apple Employee Threatens to Leak User’s iCloud Data
Chen Na reports: “Your personal data belongs to you, not others,” reads a bold declaration on Apple’s webpage for user privacy. But for one Chinese customer, this proved not to be the case after an Apple tech support employee threatened to leak his photos, contacts, emails, and memos online. An article describing how the Apple…
Airline Emirates ‘leaking customers’ sensitive data’
Kirsten Doyle reports that international airline Emirates is denying claims by a researcher claiming that they are leaking customers’ sensitive data. The alleged leak was discovered by Konark Modi, a data security engineer for Cliqz, who explained in post last Friday, how he was booking tickets for his family through the Emirates Web site when…
Waltham Forest Council has breached data protection laws
Alice Richardson reports: A Waltham Forest Council employee uploaded a video containing “sensitive information” to Youtube, a report filled with damning personal data breaches has revealed. The report by private consultants Agilisys noted the council is currently not currently compliant with data protection regulations. It also shows how personal information was wrongly disclosed 18 times…