Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Rhode Island (BCBSRI) is contacting 1,567 plan subscribers that a portion of their protected health information has been impermissibly made accessible by one of its business partners. A BCBSRI vendor […]
Facebook has revealed that its engineers have discovered, and addressed, a serious data breach on September 25, last Tuesday, which affected approximately 50m account holders. Impacted users have been sent a notification and automatically logged […]
A former staff member of the emergency department of Brooklyn’s Kings County Hospital is accused of stealing the protected health information of at least 100 patients while employed there. The same person is accused of […]
AggregateIQ, a Canadian-based analytics company which acted on behalf of the Vote Leave campaign, has been issued with the first ever UK GDPR notice by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) in relation to business carried out […]
According to a report by the Wall Street Journal Amazon is being investigated due to allegations that some of its staff members have been leaking consumer and company data in return for payment. The claims […]
The New York Attorney General has fined the Arc of Erie County $200,000 by breaching HIPAA Rules when it did not secure the electronic protected health information (ePHI) of its customers. The Arc of Erie […]
Several studies have been conducted to assess the cost of cybercrime in the United States, although there is little data on the cost of cyberattacks in Germany. That has been addressed with a recent survey […]
A GDPR complaint has been filed by the operators of the Brave internet browser with authorities in Ireland and the UK in relation to privacy breaches caused by Google and other ad tech companies. Chief […]
Honolulu-based Fetal Diagnostic Institute of the Pacific (FDIP) was hit by a ransomware attack on June 30 this year. File-encrypting software was uploaded to an FDIP server and encrypted a wide range of file types […]
Google stated its case against the CNIL (France’s data protection agency) in relation to the GDPR ‘right to be forgotten’ to the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) on Tuesday 11 September. The CJEU […]
Reliable Respiratory, a Norwood, MA-based respiratory care organisation has been subjected to a phishing attack that has impacted several thousand of its clients. A cyberattack was first noticed on July 3, 2018, after the detection […]
Due to a computer hack accessing credit card data approximately 380,000 customers, British Airways will likely to be the first major company to face a test, and possibly extremely high financial penalties, under the European […]
The New Mexico Department of Health is trying to ascertain how the private medical records of some of its clients came to fall from a truck while being taken from the hospital to a secure […]
From October 3, Apple App Store rules will oblige developers will have to disclose how users’ personal data is used, safeguarded and shared under a new privacy policy. In the release posted on the App […]
The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) brought in many new regulations for healthcare groups, but who polices HIPAA? Which federal departments are charged with making sure HIPAA Rules are adhered to by covered […]
A mailing mistake that was sent to Missouri Care subscribers reminding them to reserve well-child visits has resulted in the accidental disclosure of the personal data of approximately 20,000 children to other Missouri Care subscribers. […]
A new report by cyber security company NTT Security has revealed that 66% UK senior executives admit their company does not have adequate security cover to deal with a security breach the financial impact of […]
French data regulator CNIL has issued a warning to two French data companies, Fidzup and Teemo, for adhering to the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation. The companies in question operate as location intelligence vendors. They […]
Authentic Recovery Center, a West Los Angeles-based drug and alcohol treatment center, is contacting 1,790 clients to inform them that some of their personally identifiable information (PII) and protected health information (PHI) may have been […]
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