For years, Florida has stayed in the headlines because of insider breaches related to identity theft. Not often do you see a lawsuit that prevails or settles, but here’s one where there’s been a settlement. The case is John Doe v. Florida Health Sciences Center Inc. d/b/a Tampa General Hospital, Case No. 14-CA-012657, in the Circuit Court…
Anonymous group releases 1,768 student GPAs from Appalachian State University
Sammy Hanf reports: A group called AppState Leaks released the information via their Twitter page of the same name this Thursday. The PDF posted contains student’s first names, majors, year and GPA. The university’s Information Security Department is currently conducting an investigation into the breach. The university said in a statement there is no indication…
Nurse fired after 528 patients’ records breached at Glendale Adventist Medical Center
Jeff Landa reports: A health-care professional at Glendale Adventist Medical Center was fired Wednesday over a privacy breach involving hundreds of patient medical records. Glendale Adventist officials said in a statement on Friday that the protected health information of 528 patients was accessed without authorization by a hospital employee. The unauthorized access included 88 patient…
Breach at Shiseido unit likely led to data leak on 420,000 shoppers
The Mainichi reports: Japanese cosmetics maker Shiseido Co. said Friday that the online store run by subsidiary IPSA Co. has suffered illegal access and that personal information on about 420,000 customers may have leaked as a result. The data included the customers’ names and addresses, but credit card information on up to around 56,000 of…
A Failed Strategy: Another Derivative Action In A Data Breach Case Goes Down To Defeat
Kevin M. McGinty of Mintz Levin writes: An attempt to impose liability on corporate officers and directors for data breach-related losses has once again failed. On November 30, 2016, a federal judge in Atlanta issued a 30 page decision dismissing a shareholder derivative action arising out of the September 2014 theft of customer credit card data…
European professional football is the latest victim of a giant data leak
Nathan Ingraham reports: Big data leaks are becoming more and more common, and today another massive victim has been revealed: professional soccer (or football, if you live anywhere but the US). German publication Der Spiegel just released the first in what will be a steady stream of details about corruption in various European football clubs as well as…