Do HIPAA and the California Confidential Medical Information Act bar city emergency services from providing detailed, real-time dispatch information and response times? The Mayor of Los Angeles says they don’t but the city’s attorney seems to think otherwise: An attorney for Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa ripped into the City Attorney’s Office today over legal advice given…
Follow-up: Staff won’t face discipline after UVic private data stolen
The president of the University of Victoria says nobody will lose their job after administrative staff failed to properly secure and store all employees’ sensitive information prior to it being stolen during a January break-in. Nearly 12,000 employees past and present at UVic had their names, social insurance numbers and banking details taken when an…
Meanwhile, in the courts….
The 9th Circuit overturned the lengthy sentence of a man convicted after having been found in possession of over 500 stolen credit card numbers. Why? Because the credit card numbers were all expired at the time. via Courthouse News
Baylor Law Screw-Up Reveals Personal Data of Entire Admitted Class: Data That We’ve Got
Elie Mystal writes: There are data breaches, and then there are data dummies. The people at Baylor Law seem to be in the latter category. Nobody was trying to steal the personal information of the admitted students at Baylor Law. But a screw-up by someone at the school resulted in all of the personal information of the admitted…
Global Payments’ security FAIL compounded by transparency FAIL?
A data breach doesn’t necessarily have to be fatal to a business but there are entities that seem to shoot themselves in the foot when it comes to breach response. Did Global Payments suffer self-inflicted public relations injury this past week when they didn’t get ahead of the story? And how will their failure to…
PBS Hacked and Loads of Data leaked by Anonymous
Anonymous has hacked PBS, Public broadcasting service website and as a result they have dumped a fairly large amount of information that includes server information, admin accounts and other information as well. The dump which was leaked via the @AnonymousWiki paste bin account comes in 7 parts. The total of breached accounts in these comes to 1997….