Vulnerable Disclosures – a blog that seems to be re-posting some of my work from here and from PHIprivacy.net without any permission or even attribution – posted this: Russian hackers have posted information on 10 US banks that have been breached in the past week and a half and are threatening to post additional information. Vulnerable Disclosures…
Politicians Cynically Using JP Morgan Hack To Try To Pass Laws To Diminish Your Privacy
Mike Masnick writes: So, as you probably heard last week, JP Morgan revealed more details of how it had been hacked, noting that the number of households impacted shot up to 76 million, thus impacting a pretty large percentage of Americans. The hack involved getting access to customer names, addresses, phone numbers and emails. It doesn’t…
J.P. Morgan won’t notify customers affected by breach
Priya Anand reports: J.P. Morgan Chase won’t notify those customers who have been affected by its summer security breach — estimated to be two-thirds of U.S. households — that their personal information was exposed, a spokesperson for the bank told MarketWatch. When asked why, the spokesperson said, “That’s just what we’re doing.” The nation’s largest bank…
Ca: Judge expands Alberta health privacy laws in case where woman’s access to parents restricted
Karen Kleiss reports: In a precedent-setting decision, Alberta’s Court of Queen’s Bench has ruled the province’s Health Information Act protects any information broadly connected to a patient’s care, even if that information is about another person. The sweeping decision from Justice Thomas Wakeling last month overturned a ruling from Alberta’s Information and Privacy Commissioner, and…
Trial in massive ID theft case postponed
AP reports that the trial for nine people from Alabama and Georgia accused in a massive identity theft case has been postponed at the joint request of the prosecution and defense. The nine are accused of stealing IDs from the Alabama Department of Corrections, a credit card processing center in Columbus, Georgia, and the military…
Touchstone Medical Imaging reveals data breach
Dave Lewis reports: Touchstone Medical Imaging is a company that is based in Brentwood Tennessee. This is a medical firm that provides services such as MRI, CT scans, Ultrasound and Mammography. Today they announced that they suffered a data breach as the result of an open share that was exposed to the Internet. This shared…