Jason C. Gavejian of Jackson Lewis writes: On March 24, 2016, Tennessee’s breach notification statute was amended when Governor, Bill Hallam, signed into law S.B. 2005. Under the amendment, notification of a data breach must now be provided to any affected Tennessee resident within 45-days after discovery of the breach (absent a delay request from law enforcement). Previously,…
PH: Voter database leaked by hackers (updated)
Rappler reports: Shortly after Anonymous PH defaced the Commission on Elections (Comelec) website, another group accessed the data of the poll body’s website, posting it publicly online. In a Facebook post before midnight Monday, March 28, a group calling itself LulzSec Pilipinas wrote, “A great lol to Commission on Elections, here’s your whoooooole database.” This appears…
Data breach exposes thousands of expats’ details in Thailand
AFP reports: The personal details of thousands of foreign nationals living in the South were briefly leaked online in what the site’s developer admitted Monday was a data breach during a test for police. The leak comes as the government nation pushes ahead with a much publicised crackdown against foreign visa overstayers and criminals, with…
Hackers reportedly access OpSec employee data
How embarrassing would it be to have a firm named OpSec Security that advertises it’s “trusted by over 400 companies and 50 government agencies” – and then it falls for a phishing scheme? Tim Stuhldreher reports: In the wake of a data breach, an anti-counterfeiting company with local sales and manufacturing operations is advising its employees to be…
UK: Dozens of Newcastle patients’ medical records go missing after van blunder
Keiran Southern reports: Confidential medical records belonging to dozens of North East patients have gone missing from Tyneside hospitals. The documents were taken after being left unsecured in a van outside a property in Fenham, Newcastle. Thieves stole the vehicle holding 143 private medical records of patients at the Royal Victoria Infirmary, Freeman Hospital and Campus for…
FBI issues warning to law firms
Linn Foster Freedman of Robinson & Cole writes: The FBI has issued a Private Industry Notification to law firms indicating that a cyber crime insider trading ring is targeting “international law firm information used to facilitate business ventures.” According to the FBI “[T]he scheme involves a hacker compromising the law firm’s computer networks and monitoring…