Cyrus Farivar reports: An alleged British hacker who has criminal charges pending in three American federal districts is preparing to petition a Suffolk County, United Kingdom court to compel the National Crime Agency (NCA) to return his encrypted seized computers and storage devices. The BBC reported Friday that Lauri Love “will petition Bury St Edmunds…
Sen. Menendez Calls For Privacy Bill To Protect Consumers In Case Of Data Breaches
CBS reports: U.S. Sen.Robert Menendez and Rep. Albio Sires (D-N.J.) announced Friday that they plan to reintroduce a Commercial Privacy Bill of Rights to improve protection for consumer data. Menendez originally called for the bill after a major data breach that affected Target stores during the holiday shopping season in 2013. Numerous other high-profile data…
Lime Crime’s Website Is Hacked, Customer Information Stolen
Kate Dries reports: The website for the vegan makeup company Lime Crime, whose wares are sold by Urban Outfitters and Nasty Gal, among others, admitted they’d been hacked earlier this week and that customer information has been compromised. But customers are up in arms over the way the site handled telling them that – or…
Breach notification in three easy mailings? (NOT)
Dr. Cathrine Steinborn, DDS of Santa Clara, California has been notifying patients and regulatory agencies of a recent breach. It appears she has sent three notifications to her patients because her first attempts at notification did not seem to provide them with enough information or support. From the public notice (with links to the files added by this blogger): SANTA…
Minn. Organization Testifies on Patient Privacy Law
Elizabeth Snell reports: Minnesota’s current patient privacy law should not be repealed in favor of HIPAA, according to the Citizens’ Council for Health Freedom (CCHF). The organization’s president and co-founder, Twila Brase, testified in front of the Minnesota House of Representatives Civil Law and Data Practices Committee this week on why the state’s patient privacy…
Breach not to blame for TurboTax fraud: Intuit CEO
Tom DiChristopher reports: A spike in fraudulent state tax filings through TurboTax was not due to a breach at software maker Intuit, CEO Brad Smith told CNBC on Friday. “Our systems have not been breached at Intuit,” Smith said during a “Squawk Alley” interview. “We take privacy and security of our customers’ information as job one….