Irvin Jackson reports: Parties involved in the federal Change Healthcare data breach lawsuits have been ordered to meet separately with a U.S. Magistrate Judge over the next two months, to discuss the most effective structure for settlement talks and the optimum timing for when negotiations should begin that may provide payouts to millions of Americans. The potential…
In April 2019, DataBreaches reported that Gulf Coast Pain Consultants, LLC d/b/a Clearway Pain Solutions Institute had recently notified patients after discovering on February 20 that their EMR system had been accessed by a third party without authorization. At the time, they disclosed that 35,000 patients had been affected but they did not indicate that…
DataBreaches hates reporting on an incident when the entity has not yet secured misconfigured storage, but after four months of futile efforts to get a Canadian clinic to respond to responsible disclosures, maybe publication will help get them off the dime. Bolton Walk-In Clinic in Ontario has a data protection policy that says: We are…
Of note from Hunton Andrews Kurth: On November 6, 2024, a Texas state district court jury found that a large e-discovery vendor violated Title 7, Chapter 33 of the Texas Penal Code, which provides that accessing a computer without its owner’s permission is a Class B misdemeanor. This case highlights the importance for e-discovery vendors…
Jeremiah Fowler reports finding another exposed database with a lot of personal information. This one may belong to SL Data Services, LLC, though Fowler notes that the folders inside it were named with separate website domains. “It appears that the company operates a network of an estimated 16 different websites, offering a range of information…
A financial penalty of $10,000 was imposed and directions were issued to HMI Institute of Health Science for failing to put in place reasonable security arrangements to protect the personal data of former students. Case No. DP-2405-C2321 HMI Institute of Health Science Pte. Ltd. (the “Organisation”) is a healthcare training provider in Singapore. On 2…