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Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

Report on Patient Privacy Volume 20, Number 9. Privacy Briefs: September 2020

- Utah Pathology Services, based in Salt Lake City, has reported a data breach involving approximately 112,000 patients. According to the medical practice’s “Notice of Data Incident,” the practice learned June 30 that “an...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

Report on Patient Privacy Volume 20, Number 1. Privacy Briefs: January 2020

Report on Patient Privacy 20, no. 1 (January 2020) - ? A cybersecurity breach temporarily halted cancer radiation treatment services at the Cancer Center of Hawaii on Oahu,[1] the center said. The center, which provides...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

Report on Patient Privacy Volume 19, Number 11. Privacy Briefs: November 2019

Report on Patient Privacy Volume 19, Number 11. (November 2019) ? The biggest threat to protected health information comes from carelessness within your organization, according to a brief from the Clearwater...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Medical Marijuana Dispensary Applications Exposed in Cyber Attack

The Nevada Division of Public Health has announced that its Medical Marijuana Program online database has suffered a cyber-attack that has exposed 11,700 applications requesting approval to open a medical marijuana...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Trading Card Maker Topps Notifies Customers of Data Breach

According to several media outlets, Topps, whose products include sports trading cards, recently notified customers via email of a security breach. Information that may have been compromised includes bank account numbers,...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

3.3 Million Health Records Breached by Business Associate Newkirk

Newkirk Products Inc., which provides ID cards and management services for healthcare organizations, including multiple Blue Cross Blue Shield organizations, has announced that it has discovered that its computer system was...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Behavioral health provider StarCare Specialty notifies 2,900 patients of breach of PHI

StarCare Specialty Health System, located in Lubbock, Texas, is notifying 2,900 patients “who received Intellectual Developmental Disabilities program services, Behavioral Health program services, and Therapeutic Treatment...more

Proskauer - Privacy & Cybersecurity

An Ounce of Prevention…Is Tax-Free: IRS Expands Tax Relief to Pre-Data Breach Identity Theft Protection Services

As reported here after last year’s customer data security breaches at major U.S. corporations, the IRS announced special tax relief for identity protection services provided to individuals affected by a security breach. In...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Dow Jones & Co. notifies 3500 of data breach

Dow Jones & Co. Has notified 3500 of its customers that their information has been accessed by unauthorized individual in a data breach that spanned August of 2012 through July of 2015. The unauthorized access, through...more

King & Spalding

Investment Adviser Settles SEC Cybersecurity Enforcement Action; SEC Issues Investor Alert

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On September 22, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) and R.T. Jones Capital Equities Management, Inc. (“R.T. Jones”), a St. Louis-based investment adviser, settled charges that R.T. Jones failed to adopt...more

Foley & Lardner LLP

A Compilation of Enforcement and Non-Enforcement Actions

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Non-Enforcement Cybersecurity Is At the Top of SEC Examination Concerns In a recent SEC “risk alert” for registered broker-dealers and investment advisers, the SEC’s Office of Compliance Inspections and Examinations (OCIE)...more

Broker-Dealer Compliance + Regulation

SEC Charges Investment Adviser With Failure to Adopt Proper Cybersecurity Policies and Procedures

A registered investment adviser agreed to settle SEC charges that it failed to adopt adequate cybersecurity policies and procedures reasonably designed to protect customer records and information as required by Rule 30(a) of...more

Proskauer on Privacy

SEC Announces Cybersecurity Enforcement Action

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On September 22, 2015, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced the settlement of an enforcement action against a St. Louis-based registered investment adviser (Adviser) brought under Rule 30(a) of Regulation...more

Burr & Forman

SEC Shows It’s Serious About Cyber Security

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A week after OCIE announced it would conduct a second round of cyber-security exams, the Commission emphasized the issue by bringing an enforcement action against a non-custodial investment-adviser over a remediated data...more

King & Spalding

Sony Announces Settlement In Data Breach Lawsuit

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Lawyers for former employees of Sony Pictures Entertainment (“SPE”) indicated in a September 2, 2015 filing that they have tentatively reached a settlement with SPE in the class action suit resulting from the data breach...more

Mintz - Privacy & Cybersecurity Viewpoints

Sony: Stipulation Announces (but does not disclose) Employee Data Breach Class Settlement

This Is The End? - Settlement appears imminent in an employee class action against Sony Pictures Entertainment (“SPE”) arising from disclosure of their personally identifiable information (“PII”) in a massive data breach...more

Mintz - Health Care Viewpoints

Class Action Suit Filed Against UCLA After It Suffers Massive Data Breach Affecting 4.5 Million Individuals

In yet another data breach affecting millions of individuals, UCLA Health System (“UCLA”) reported on July 17, 2015, that hackers had accessed portions of its health network that contained personal information, including...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP

Connecticut Requires Free Credit Monitoring for Certain Breaches

For nearly a decade, the Connecticut Attorney General (“AG”) has requested or encouraged companies to provide at least two years of free credit monitoring to Connecticut residents following breaches involving information...more

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