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Data Breach
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Technology Law Source
Hospital pays six figures to settle data breach enforcement suit
At the end of last month, Boston hospital Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) settled a data breach lawsuit brought by the Massachusetts Attorney General related to the 2012 theft…
Antitrust Law Source
Hospital pays six figures to settle data breach enforcement suit
At the end of last month, Boston hospital Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) settled a data breach lawsuit brought by the Massachusetts Attorney General related to the 2012 theft…
Technology Law Dispatch
Oregon Breach Notification Law Changes on the Horizon
By Divonne Smoyer, Christine Nielsen Czuprynski
On December 10, Oregon Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum testified in front of the joint Oregon Senate and House Judiciary Committee on the evolving nature of not only data collection and…
Technology Law Dispatch
One Year Later: Consumers Can Proceed Against Target in Data Breach Lawsuit
By Paul Bond, Christine Nielsen Czuprynski
On the one-year anniversary of Target’s announcement that it had suffered a massive data breach, Judge Magnuson in the District of Minnesota cleared the way for a consumer class action…
Consumer Protection Connection
Privacy Class Action Claims on the Rise
By Sheila Millar, Tracy Marshall
From the allegations of Edward Snowden about official snooping on U.S. citizens (and non-Americans worldwide) to any of the seemingly innumerable data breaches hitting retailers like Home Depot and Target…
Internet, IT & e-Discovery
Cyberintrusions Lead to 81+ Million Records Exposed in 2014
By Peter Vogel
The Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC) defines data breaches when an incident put a risk of exposure of an individual’s “name plus a Social Security number, driver’s license number, medical…
Password Protected
‘Tis The Season We Fear The Data Breach Thieves
By Mark Hubbard
During the holidays, consumers are pulling out debit and credit cards again, again and again. It is with a degree of blind faith those same consumers trust their personal data…
The Right Coast
Here s Sony Lawyer s Letter Telling Publishers to Stop Publishing Leaks | Re/code
Sony Pictures Entertainment has demanded that news organizations stop the publishing of private information from what is shaping up to be one of the most devastating corporate hacks of all time.via recode.netWe hereby…
HL Chronicle of Data Protection
Latest HIPAA Settlement Emphasizes Need to Regularly Address Software Vulnerabilities
On December 2, the Department of Health and Human Services, Office for Civil Rights announced a $150,000 settlement with Anchorage Community Mental Health Services, Inc. for alleged violations of the…
Privacy & Information Security Law Blog
HHS Reaches Settlement with Health Care Company Over Malware Breach
The Department of Health and Human Services recently announced a resolution agreement and settlement with Anchorage Community Mental Health Services in connection with a data breach caused by malware.