Ken Kronstadt and Crystal Skelton of Kelley Drye & Warren LLP write: Last week, the Eighth Circuit upheld a lower court’s ruling in State Bank of Bellingham v. BancInsure Inc., finding that a bank employee’s negligence in securing its computer network did not preclude coverage for a data breach resulting in a fraudulent funds transfer. The decision…
CA Health & Longevity Institute patients notified of Bizmatics breach
Seen on dailynews.kaango.com, another Bizmatics client discloses the breach to their patients: (DAILY NEWS) PUBLIC NOTICE: HIPAA Breach Notification. CA Health and Longevity Institute would like to alert patients that in 2015 cyber intruders may have accessed confidential patient information that was stored on an electronic health record system. The clinic uses an electronic health…
Reddit Forced to Reset 100,000 Passwords After ‘Uptick’ In Hacked Accounts
Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai reports: After a flurry of hacked accounts, Reddit has been forced to reset the passwords of 100,000 users in two weeks. The company announced it on Thursday, noting that this “general uptick” in account takeovers comes on the heels of large data breaches on other sites, such as the recent leak of more than 100 million…
Swift Hack Probe Expands to Up to a Dozen Banks Beyond Bangladesh
Michael Riley and Alan Katz report: Investigators are examining possible computer breaches at as many as 12 banks linked to Swift’s global payments network that have irregularities similar to those in the theft of $81 million from the Bangladesh central bank, according to a person familiar with the probe. FireEye, the security firm hired by…
Precision Medicine Initiative and Data Security
Secretary Sylvia Mathews Burwell and Lisa O. Monaco write: The health care system of the future is taking shape right now, and the foundation of that new system is health care data that is private, trusted and secure. Today, we are pleased to release the final Data Security Policy Principles and Framework (Security Framework) for President Obama’s Precision…
VA: Associates in Eye Care notifies patients of breach
Associates in Eye Care notified HHS on May 16 about an incident affecting 971 patients. DataBreaches.net could find nothing on their web site about the incident. The Prince William Times ran a small item that may be related, but the following incident occurred in Virginia, and the HHS report gave Kentucky as the state. Associates in Eye…