Over on TechDirt, Mike Masnick had the patience to write up and report on some of what I should have written up already, but hadn’t. Read Mike’s report on how I and others wound up as the targets of a grand jury subpoena on TechDirt. And if you read carefully, you’ll see that I wound…
Third Defendant Charged in iCloud “Celebgate” Scandal That Leaked Private Photos of Hollywood Stars
Rafia Shaikh reports: A third person has agreed to plead guilty to hacking over 550 computers in the 2014 iCloud hack that exposed private photos of dozens of celebrities. Emilio Herrera from Chicago is expected to plead guilty to a violation of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, facing a maximum sentence of five years in…
ICE Leads Investigation Into Medical Records Stolen From East Brunswick
There’s a follow-up to an incident previously reported on this site. Charlie Kratovil reports: A Sayreville man was arrested on September 12 and charged with “selling medical records that he stole from a storage unit in East Brunswick,” according to the Middlesex County Prosecutor’s Office (MCPO). Authorities stated that “over 1,000 medical records,” which contained…
UK: NHS workers warned about consequences of snooping into patients’ medical records
NHS employees who are tempted to look at patient records without a valid legal reason should consider the potential implications for both themselves and the health service. The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) issued the warning after an NHS administrator was fined for repeatedly accessing a patient’s medical records without a valid legal reason. Nicola Wren…
WP29 guidelines on personal data breach notification under GDPR
Anita Anand of Allen & Overy writes: The Article 29 Working Party this week published draft Guidelines on personal data breach notificationunder GDPR. The relevant GDPR provisions are often misrepresented, and in many respects leave matters open to interpretation – a good or bad thing depending on the day. Many are now asking what further…
Watch out, Aadhar biometrics are an easy target for hackers
Ankush Johar writes, in part: The government claimed that Aadhaar is completely secure, and the data of the consumers was absolutely safe from any malicious party until a severe flaw was detected in the system. The bug allowed a malicious operator to save a user’s biometrics and simply use it to carry out transactions on…