Brendon Tavelli writes: On August 22, Illinois Governor Pat Quinn signed House Bill 3025 into law. In doing so, he aligned Illinois with a small group of states responding to increased concern about privacy and information security by retooling their existing information security breach notification frameworks. HB3025, in particular, amends the state’s breach notification law to specify…
Providence police, hospitals at odds in medical privacy debate
Amanda Milkovits has a great report on the thorny intersection between law enforcement, state medical privacy laws, and HIPAA: A judge in a murder trial in June wanted to see the medical records of a woman whose husband was charged with killing her. Rhode Island Hospital’s records department rejected the court order –– and answered…
Epson, HSBC Korea, domain registrar hacked: 100,000 domains affected
Zack Whittaker writes: A series of hacks have hit the South Korean population, in a string of hacking attacks which have caused widespread disruption to the country’s state-run and privately operated firms. South Korean domain registrar Gabia has been hacked, exposing over 100,000 domains and 350,000 users. […] It is thought in some cases, data…
Pointer: right to know
Another consumer is singing my tune about how consumers have a right to know what merchant had a breach. That states and Congress have yet to recognize that right is disappointing.
UK: Hays Discloses RBS Pay Deals in Email Gaffe
Mark Kleinman reports: The recruitment specialist Hays is at the centre of an embarrassing gaffe today after one of its employees distributed an email disclosing the remuneration of thousands of contractors working for the state-backed Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS). I have learnt that a Hays employee yesterday inadvertently forwarded a message showing the pay…
UAE: Employee arrested for credit card fraud
Matovu Abdallah Twaha reports: An Arab man working for a major electronic company in Dubai was arrested for stealing customers’ credit card information and using it to buy expensive products from the same company. Director of Electronic Investigations at the Criminal Investigations Department (CID), Maj. Saeed Al Hajiri said they were informed in July about…