Oh the things that we learn from freedom of information requests: Personal information including medical details, a bank statement and the outcome of a disciplinary hearing are among documents accidentally leaked to members of the public in the past year, it has emerged. In Wolverhampton, a list of vulnerable people in placements was left in…
WA: Pierce County Housing Authority notifying Section 8 housing wait list residents after data breach
King5 staff report: The Pierce County Housing Authority is conducting an investigation into a security breach that impacts all the people on the county’s wait list for Section 8 housing. The staff does not yet know how it happened, but the names and social security numbers of all the people on the wait list appeared…
OutdoorNetwork notifying customers that malware may have snagged their credit card info (update2)
Outdoor Network LLC in Hollywood, Florida is notifying customers who engaged in credit card transactions between December 2012 and July 2013 that their personal information may have been exfiltrated to unauthorized third parties. In a letter dated September 11, Martin Polo, the firm’s CEO, writes that they recently learned of a breach affecting their boats.net and partzilla.com…
Meanwhile, back in court: Tiversa sues LabMD for defamation, seeks to block publication of book by LabMD CEO (updated)
Back in July, I reported that LabMD had unsuccessfully attempted to sue Tiversa in Georgia for allegedly stealing its property. At issue was a file containing PHI on 1,718 patients that Tiversa had downloaded as part of a research project after the file was exposed via P2P software on LabMD’s system. In its 2009 press release…
Lawsuit against HHS seeks overturn of restriction on refill reminder programs, cites Sorrell
I came across this press release from inVentiv Health and think it’s of interest because of the intersection of privacy and protected speech: Adheris, Inc., an inVentiv Health company, filed suit today against the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, asking a federal court to enjoin the government from implementing a new regulation that…
Hackers publish 165,000 Israelis’ information
Ilan Gattegno reports: A pro-Syrian hacking group breached Israeli and American websites and released the personal information of over 165,000 Israelis. The biggest breach, part of an organized cyberattack on numerous websites over the past few days, was in a website that offered web hosting services. The breached site provided all information on its users,…