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Data Breach
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Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider
79,000 students’ data breached by vendor of Cal State
We End Violence, a third party vendor that provides online sexual assault prevention training to California State (Cal State) students notified Cal State that it experienced a vulnerability in its…
Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider
Advocate Health class action lawsuit trimmed
Last week, an Illinois judge dismissed with prejudice five of the six claims levied against Advocate Health Care in a consolidated case of ten cases filed against it following the…
Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider
OCR settlement reiterates importance of proactive security rule compliance
By Conor Duffy
On September 2, 2015, the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) announced that Cancer Care Group, P.C. (CCG), a physician practice located in Indiana, agreed to pay $750,000…
Data Counsel
Incident Response Practice Tip: Balance Meeting Breach Notification Deadlines With Securing Your Network
State breach notification statutes are being amended on almost a monthly basis. Several laws have, or will soon have, a mandatory notification deadline for notifying affected individuals after the discovery…
Consumer Finance Spotlight
Class of Financial Institution Plaintiffs Certified in Target Data Breach Litigation
On September 15, 2015, U.S. District Judge Paul A. Magnuson certified a class of financial institution plaintiffs in the multi-district litigation pending in the District of Minnesota arising out of…
Tax Talks
IRS Provides Some Relief after Data Hacks
Citing scary facts like the 16.6 million victims of identity theft in 2012 and the recent customer data security breaches at major U.S. companies, the IRS recently announced special tax…
Health Care and Life Sciences
2012 Breach and Lacking Compliance Program Results in $750,000 Settlement for Radiation Oncology Group
By Arthur J. Fried, Patricia M. Wagner, Adam C. Solander, Evan Nagler, and Jonathan Hoerner On September 2, 2015, the U. S. Department of Health and Human Services ("HHS") announced…
Workplace Privacy, Data Management & Security Report
HIPAA Audits Maybe, But Audit Preparedness Definitely!
According to a Bloomberg article, the second phase of HIPAA audits by the Office for Civil Rights (OCR), originally set to commence in 2014, may be coming soon. This update…
Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider
10 million Excellus Blue Cross Blue Shield members’ information compromised
Yesterday, Excellus Blue Cross Blue Shield, located in Rochester, NY, announced that it will notify up to 10 million members that it was the victim of a cyber-attack dating back…
Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider
UCLA suffers another data breach
Last week, UCLA notified 1242 patients that their health information may have been compromised in July when a faculty member's laptop was stolen. UCLA has notified the patients, the Office…