KrebsOnSecurity has reported that sources from the banking industry have advised of a pattern of fraud on credit cards used at Trump Hotel Collection (Trump) properties. Trump has confirmed that it is investigating the...more
A Norfolk Admirals fan notified the Admirals last week that his information was posted online. Another customer found out that her information was posted online from the service Have I been Pwned? Her son’s name and address...more
We previously reported that 21st Century Oncology (21st Century) experienced a data breach of up to 2.2 million patient records that compromised the names, Social Security numbers and health and diagnostic information. It...more
The FBI and DOJ continue their effort to bring cyber hackers to justice.
Last week, Chinese national Su Bin pled guilty to stealing data related to Boeing’s C-17 military cargo plane and of trying to steal information...more
MedStar Health has announced that it has shut down its electronic medical record system after confirming that it has been struck with malware....more
Filed under the title of creative lawyering, a putative class action case has been filed against Facebook in federal court in Northern California alleging that health care providers and medical organizations have violated...more
We have been following and reporting on the Facebook and Shutterfly biometrics cases in Illinois and California.
Google was recently sued by a potential class in Illinois alleging that it violated the Illinois Biometric...more
We previously reported that 21st Century Oncology had suffered a data breach and notified 2.2 million patients that it had been the victim of a hacking that exposed the names, Social Security numbers, physicians’ names,...more
It’s tax season. The dreaded April 15 federal tax filing deadline is looming. You try to be diligent, and you file your tax return early, hoping to get an early refund. But when you try to e-file your return, it gets rejected...more
Jeep/Fiat has been sued by a putative class alleging that they were harmed as a result of researchers’ ability to hack into a Jeep and take control of it. Jeep/Fiat filed a motion to dismiss, stating that the owners suffered...more
Just a week after we reported that the FBI warned international law firms that they are targets for cyber hackings, multiple (reportedly up to 50) BigLaw firms have confirmed that they have been victims of hackings and...more
In a sign of increased cross-border cooperation for enforcement purposes, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) recently signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications...more
Uber recently announced that it has launched a bug bounty program that will pay white-hat hackers up to $10,000 for exposure of information that identifies “critical issues,” such as Social Security numbers, credit card...more
As we mentioned before, Rhode Island amended its Identity Theft Protection Act on June 30, 2015, which will become effective on June 26, 2016. Now is the time to think about and put processes in place for compliance with the...more
The feds have been busy on the cyber prosecutions front. First, on March 18, 2016, the FBI announced that a multi-agency collaborative effort blew up an identity theft ring whose leader was an inmate in a Georgia prison. The...more
The FBI has issued a Private Industry Notification to law firms indicating that a cyber crime insider trading ring is targeting “international law firm information used to facilitate business ventures.” According to the FBI...more
Following the investigation of a self-reported data breach involving the loss of an unencrypted laptop containing the protected health information (PHI) of 13,000 individuals, the OCR slammed the New York based biomedical...more
Most people don’t think about the microphone on their mobile phone unless it isn’t working. Most people don’t know that if it is on, it is working all of the time and is capturing private data that it has access to....more
On March 21, 2016, the FBI and the U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration issued a public safety announcement outlining the dangers of cars getting hacked.
The announcement follows the media reporting about...more
The Office for Civil Rights (OCR) has been stating publicly that it will gear up for its second round of HIPAA audits for some time, and the time has come. The OCR has officially started the next round of audits of covered...more
The list of healthcare entities that have become (and will become) victims of ransomware is rapidly growing. The predictions from experts are that the list will grow exponentially into the future.
Last week, Methodist...more
We previously reported that several states, including Connecticut and Rhode Island, have adopted data security requirements, similar to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts’ data security regulations that have been in effect...more
Hackers apparently amused themselves by hacking into data security firm Staminus’ database and dumped the information, including customer information and credit card numbers online. Staminus is quick to note that it does not...more
On March 16, 2016, the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) issued a press release announcing that it has settled its investigation of North Memorial Health Care System (NMHCS), located in Minnesota, for $1.55 million saying that...more
Premier Healthcare, a multi-specialty group located in Bloomington, Illinois, announced in early March that an unencrypted laptop has been missing from its billing department since early January and started notifying affected...more