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Data Breach
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CommLaw Monitor
FTC Seeks to Bring Telecom Carriers within the Scope of New Data Security and Data Breach Legislation
By Kelley Drye
This entry was drafted by Telecom Partner John Heitmann Yesterday, the FTC testified before a Senate Subcommittee and recommended that proposed data security legislation introduced by Senators Pryor (D., AR)…
InsureReinsure
Maine Supreme Court Issues Decision in Hannaford Case, Rules That Time and Effort Spent Mitigating Harm from Data Theft Do Not Constitute Cognizable Injury
This morrning, the Maine Supreme Court issued its decision in the matter of In re Hannaford Bros. Co. Customer Data Security Breach Litigation, Docket No. Fed-09-586, on a question certified…
Health IT Law Blog
California fines hospital $250,000 for failing to comply with state breach statute
As we mentioned previously, California has the strictest data breach notification statute in the country, allowing entities only five days to report a breach, but not permitting even the customary…
HIPAA & Health Information Technology
The Parade of PHI Security Breaches – Providers and Insurers Beware of Attorney General Richard Blumenthal and Other Attorneys General
As reported previously on this blog, the requirements under the HIPAA/HITECH statutes and regulations for public disclosure of security breaches of Protected Health Information (“PHI”) have continuously been bringing to…
HIPAA & Health Information Technology
The Ever-Lengthening Parade of PHI Security Breaches – The New Paper Chase of Four Massachusetts Community Hospitals
This blog has been reporting on the effects on providers, insurers and others of the HIPAA/HITECH statutes and regulations that require public disclosure of breaches of unsecured Protected…
Workplace Privacy, Data Management & Security Report
Federal Law Introduced to Require Credit Monitoring Following Data Breach
On August 5, 2010, U.S. Senators Mark Pryor (D-AR) and John D. (Jay) Rockefeller IV (D-WV) introduced legislation to require businesses and nonprofit organizations that store consumers’ personal information to…
Privacy Compliance & Data Security
Tony Soprano Goes Into the Business of Stealing Personal Information
Organized crime has been known as a group responsible for trading in stolen, personally identifiable information. The recent 2010 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report reports that organized criminals were responsible…
Health IT Law Blog
Final breach notification rules delayed
On August 19, 2009, pursuant to the HITECH Act, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) published the interim final regulations regarding breach notification requirements for health care providers…
Health IT Law Blog
HealthNet and Connecticut settle breach suit
In November of 2009, health insurance provider HealthNet reported a loss of a portable disk drive (which occurred six months prior to HealthNet's report). The disk drive contained compressed, though…
Health IT Law Blog
Major breach at a New York hospital affects over 130,000 patients
Lincoln Medical and Mental Health Center (LMMHC) in New York suffered a major breach affecting 130,495 of its patients, according to a notice provided to HHS. The breach occurred when…