North Caroline Attorney General Josh Stein and state representative Jason Saine have introduced a bill to moderize data breach notification laws in the state and increase protections for state residents after an increase in data breaches affecting North Carolina...
The Californian Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) was signed into law in June 2018. Many data privacy experts have compared CCPA to Europe’s latest data protection legislation, the General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR). Much like GDPR, CCPA has changed how businesses...
In order to properly address the question, “Is Google Drive HIPAA compliant?” there are a number of factors to consider. This is due to the fact that HIPAA compliance is less about specific technologies and more about how technologies are utilized. Any software...
A ransomware attack that has possibly resulted in the theft of plan subscriber’ protected health information has been reported by a business associate of Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan. This is the second recent data breach affecting Blue Cross Blue Shield of...
After an employee set up a mail forwarder to broadcast emails to a personal email account, Choice Rehabilitation of Creve Coeur, MO has discovered an unauthorized person illegally logged into a that corporate email account. The breach took place on July 1, 2018 and...
California Attorney General Xavier Becerra announced today that the California Department of Justice will hold six public forums on the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) starting January 8. During the December press meeting in which the public forums were...
A phishing attack has potentially been compromised the private personal data of 8,400 patients of the Humana-owned Family Physicians Group in Orlando who are are being notified as a result of the breach. Family Physicians Group is one of the biggest providers of...
Notification are being sent to existing and former patients of the Dental Center of Northwest Ohio in Toledo to advise them that some of their protected health information may have been exposed due to a ransomware attack on one of its vendors. Managed IT service...
