A United States Senate subcommittee has revealed that it is working on a draft of a GDPR-style legislation for the United States. Senators Richard Blumenthal (Democrat) and Jerry Moran (Republican) are putting together a bipartisan […]
FHN Healthcare, which runs FHN Memorial Hospital in Freeport, IL, and a group of family healthcare centers located in northwest Illinois, has discovered that a laptop computer storing the protected health information of 4,458 clients […]
A group of European Union-based consumer watchdogs have submitted a data privacy compliant, under the new General Data Protection Regulation legislation, against Google in the belief that the company is using methods to record web users’ […]
Florida-based Key Dental Group has made contact with its patients about a suspected HIPAA breach which may have led to the unauthorized release of their protected health information (PHI). After amended its electronic medical record […]
A warning has been issued by Instagram that a number of users of the social media platform have had their password details exposed by a security leak. Ironically, this breach occurred due to a flaw […]
In October, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) revealed that the HealthCare.gov online portal had been hacked and the sensitive data of around 75,000 individuals had possibly been obtained. This week, the CMS […]
The United Kingdom’s Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has found that the Washington Post online subscription options are not in compliance with the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The online subscription options are not subjected to […]
The EU introduced the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in May 2018. Since its implementation, GDPR has changed the way that businesses handle, collect, and process consumer data. It is a landmark piece of legislation […]
Vancouver, Washington, based Southwest Washington Regional Surgery Center has been hit by a phishing attack that has lead to the exposure of 2,393 patients’ protected health information. The breach was restricted to a single staff […]
Virginia based Inova Health System has started to contact 12,331 patients to advise them that some of their protected health information has been obtained by an unauthorized person. Law enforcement contacted Inova Health System on […]
Dutch investigators are conducting an investigation following claims that Microsoft Office is in breach of the European Union General Data Protection Regulations in relation to the data the software has been gathering including the content […]
The operators of content Management platform WordPress have issued an advisory urging users to refresh the WP GDPR Compliance plug-in as soon as possible due to a flaw in the software leading to a potential […]
Upstate University Hospital in Syracuse, NY, is getting in touch with 1,216 patients to advise them that some of their protected health information (PHI) has been impermissibly accessed by a former member of staff. Upstate […]
Privacy International, a UK-based registered charity that defends and promotes the right to privacy across the world, last week filed a number of complaints against US-based Companies to European based Data Protection bodies concerning suspected breaches of the General Data […]
A $200,000 settlement has been agreed with Best Medical Transcription in relation to HIPAA breaches that were discovered during an investigation of a 2016 breach of 1,650 clients’ protected health information. Best Medical Transcription, a […]
Facebook is facing the wrath of the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) once again following a complaint made by the UK Information Commissioner Office (ICO) to the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) in […]
According to the most recent Beazley’s Q3 Breach Insights Report, Cyber Criminal campaigns attacks are increasing once again and healthcare is the most targeted sector. Ransomware attacks on healthcare groups comprised 37% of those managed […]
A potential General Data Protection Regulation breach impacting members of the firm’s loyalty and rewards scheme has been reported by the Radisson Hotel Group. The Radisson Hotel Group, headquartered in Brussels, Belgium, has chain accounts for […]
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