Lauri Love, 29, of Stradishall, England, was indicted yesterday by a federal grand jury in the Eastern District of Virginia on charges of conspiracy, causing damage to a protected computer, access device fraud and aggravated identity theft. According to the indictment, beginning around October 2012, Love and his conspirators accessed without authorization protected computers belonging…
UK: Review of the impact of the ICO’s civil monetary penalties
Have civil monetary penalties (CMP) for data protection breaches had any impact in the U.K.? The Information Commissioner’s Office has had the authority to issue such penalties since April 2010 for serious breaches of the Data Protection Act (DPA), and since May 2011 for serious breaches of the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations (PECR). From…
SC: Self Regional Healthcare notifies patients of breach
Self Regional Healthcare has posted a notice on its web site concerning a data security incident: On May 27, 2014, Self Regional employees discovered that two unauthorized individuals broke into one of its facilities and stole a laptop belonging to SRH. The theft occurred on Sunday, May 25, 2014. Upon learning of the burglary, SRH contacted…
Do You Know Where Your Health Data Are?
Marlisse Silver Sweeney reports: It’s like Hansel and Gretel, reversed. Bryant Storm, on Wolters Kluwer Law & Health Blog writes, “each day, most of us leave behind a trail of data that can be used to construct a detailed health profile.” This is perhaps scarier than any wicked witch wanting to bake you alive and eat…
Former University of Nebraska student sentenced for computer fraud
Ryan Murphy reports that a former University of Nebraska-Lincoln student who pleaded guilty to large security breach in 2012 affecting the University of Nebraska and the Nebraska State College System has been sentenced to prison: 23-year-old Daniel Stratman of Omaha received 6 months in prison on one count of Fraud and Related Activity in Connection…
House Oversight’s lopsided hearing on the FTC
The House Oversight Committee held a hearing this morning that was supposed to be about FTC authority under Section 5, but it wound up being more of Chairman Darrell Issa using his position as a bully pulpit to attack the FTC, Tiversa, and Democrats on the committee who would not give a potential whistleblower (a former employee…