Andrew Scurria reports the latest on a lawsuit stemming from one of the biggest breaches ever involving PHI – the theft of backup tapes from SAIC from an employee’s unattended vehicle in 2011. A D.C. federal judge on Friday gutted a wide-ranging multidistrict case seeking damages from the U.S. Department of Defense and security contractor Science…
UK: Met Police in dock as probe reveals over 300 data breaches
An investigation into the data protection practices of the Metropolitan Police – the UK’s biggest force – has exposed a litany of data breaches, with a charge-sheet that includes officers even handing information to underworld figures. In total there were 300 breaches of data protection rules at The Met between 2009 and 2013 but the…
Class action lawsuit filed against UPMC over data breach
Update: Ultimate Software Group has denied any responsibility for the UPMC breach and say they don’t think UPMC is even a client. Read more here. Original article: Bob Mayo reports: A class action lawsuit filed in federal court targets both the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) and a payroll software company it uses called…
Hacker Goes to Top Dutch Court in U.S. Extradition Fight
Maud van Gaal and David Voreacos report: Vladimir Drinkman, a Muscovite wanted by the U.S. on charges he helped lead a ring that hacked 17 companies including 7-Eleven Inc. and Nasdaq OMX Group Inc. (NDAQ), is fighting a Dutch court ruling that would allow his extradition. The Supreme Court of the Netherlands, the nation’s top…
WooThemes users notified of payment card breach, 300 reports of fraud
Adam Greenberg reports: After about 300 cases of payment card fraud were reported within a few days, WooThemes, a provider of WordPress themes, began notifying users that three modified files were discovered on its server and that payment card data may have been intercepted during the checkout process. Read more on SC Magazine.
Cincinnati notifies almost 6,000 employees enrolled in their health plan about a mailing error
One of the breaches added to HHS’s public breach tool this week was an incident involving the City of Cincinnati, who reported that 5,696 individuals were notified of a breach on April 4 involving their business associate, OptumRx. PHIprivacy.net contacted the City of Cincinnati, who sent this statement about the incident: “In April we notified…