Amon Cohen reports: International SOS, which claims to be “the world’s largest medical and security services company,” suffered a cyber-attack on its traveler-tracking system. A source told BTN the incident took place Aug. 28. “We detected an unauthorized access in the U.S. to one of our systems, which hosts traveler information related to one of our information…
I never promised you a rose garden
I beg your pardon, I never promised you a rose garden. Along with the sunshine There’s gotta be a little rain sometime — From the song The song was running through my head as I read Law360’s report that LinkedIn’s latest attempt to get the lawsuit against it dismissed claims it never made premium subscribers any…
Data Breach Lawsuits Settling in the Southern District of Florida
Al Saikali writes: Plaintiffs in data breach lawsuits around the country have had a difficult time surviving motions to dismiss and for summary judgment. A number of courts have rejected these lawsuits because they failed to allege or demonstrate cognizable injuries, standing, causation, and the requisite elements to withstand an economic loss rule defense. It…
Ca: Colbourne no longer listed as a defendant in privacy breach class-action lawsuit
Diane Crocker reports: The woman alleged to have inappropriately accessed the files of over 1,000 people while employed as a clerk with Western Health at Western Memorial Regional Hospital in Corner Brook has been removed as a defendant in a class-action lawsuit over the privacy breach. That leaves Western Health as the sole defendant in…
FTC complaint against LabMD could serve as guidance to businesses on data security
The Federal Trade Commission has released a provisionally redacted public version of its complaint against LabMD (PHIprivacy.net’s coverage of LabMD linked here). The complaint provides what could be useful guidance as to what types of practices the FTC considers to be problematic practices under the Act: 10. At all relevant times, respondent engaged in a number of…
Errant e-mail creates security breach at MNsure
Jackie Crosby reports: A MNsure employee accidentally sent an e-mail file to an Apple Valley insurance broker’s office on Thursday that contained Social Security numbers, names, business addresses and other identifying information on more than 2,400 insurance agents. An official at MNsure, the state’s new online health insurance exchange, acknowledged it had mishandled private data. . Read…