The Office of the Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data in Hong Kong has published a report on an investigation into the Hospital Authority’s data security practices. The investigation arose after two incidents in 2012 when a passerby found patient information from two hospitals in the street near the Hospital Authority’s contractor for shredding services. The…
How Healthcare.gov Could Be Hacked
Dana Liebelson reports: With Healthcare.gov plagued by technical difficulties, the Obama administration is bringing in heavyweight coders and private companies like Verizon to fix the federal health exchange, pronto. But web security experts say the Obamacare tech team should add another pressing cyber issue to its to-do list: eliminating a security flaw that could make sensitive user information, including Social Security…
Update: Schnucks agrees to proposed settlement over data breach
Kavita Kumar reports: Schnuck Markets has agreed to a proposed class-action settlement stemming from the breach of its computer systems in which an estimated 2.4 million payment cards were compromised. The preliminary settlement was presented to St. Louis Circuit Judge David Dowd on Wednesday afternoon. He is expected to rule on it in the coming…
Plaintiffs Bar Hit Hard by Recent CMIA Decision
Paul Paray comments on the recent ruling in California involving statutory damages under the CMIA in the event of a breach: Insurers providing privacy liability coverage were collectively breathing a sigh of relief last week given a decision from the California Court of Appeals. Interpreting the California Medical Information Act (CMIA), the court in Regents of the…
How Healthcare.gov Could Be Hacked
Dana Liebelson reports: With Healthcare.gov plagued by technical difficulties, the Obama administration is bringing in heavyweight coders and private companies like Verizon to fix the federal health exchange, pronto. But web security experts say the Obamacare tech team should add another pressing cyber issue to its to-do list: eliminating a security flaw that could make sensitive user information, including Social Security…
Huge Document Leaked From Ukraine Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Anonymous hacktivist have today again released another heap of documents from another Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Today’s target turns out to be Ukraine Ministry of Foreign Affairs (https://mfa.gov.ua/ua) and comes from the same anonymous hacktivist who last week leaked data from Poland’s ministry of economy. This data leak seems to be more focused back on the oil…