Sherry Slater reports: The ink was barely dry on patient notification letters when Medical Informatics Engineering Inc. was named the defendant in a lawsuit alleging that negligence contributed to the local company’s May data breach. James Young, a patient whose medical information was compromised, filed the paperwork Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Fort Wayne….
U.S. intel fears hundreds of secrets leaked in Hillary’s private emails
John Solomon and S. A. Miller report: The U.S. intelligence community is bracing for the possibility that former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton’s private email account contains hundreds of revelations of classified information from spy agencies and is taking steps to contain any damage to national security, according to documents and interviews Thursday. The top…
Breach litigation standing — the bell tolls for Clapper
There have been a number of law firms blogging about the Seventh Circuit’s opinion in the Neiman Marcus lawsuit as a game-changer in data breach litigation. Here’s one commentary by Taylor Brooke Concannon and Peter Sloan of Husch Blackwell: For years, federal district courts have reliably dismissed data breach consumer class actions at the outset, citing the…
CA: Pharmacy Technician Suspended for Patient Data Theft
Pharmacy Times has more on the case of a pharmacy technician at a San Diego CVS store who was accused of stealing patient data for identity theft. It appears that CVS had no knowledge of the data theft until they were contacted by the Secret Service, who had raided her apartment: During an interview with CVS…
FBI says hackers shake down big banks, threaten to shut sites if they don’t pay up
Priya Anand reports: More than 100 companies, including targets from big banks to brokerages in the financial sector, have received distributed denial of service threats since about April, says Richard Jacobs, assistant special agency in charge of the cyber branch at the FBI’s New York office. With these types of attacks, known as DDoS, criminals…
OK: Another small restaurant’s payment processing system compromised (updated)
Some Salita’s Restaurant customers in Durant, Oklahoma reportedly became victims of credit card fraud after the restaurant’s payment processing system was breached. According to The Durant Democrat, customers who ate at Salita’s between July 1st and July 27th are most affected. There doesn’t seem to be any statement on the restaurant’s web site, but the owner…