Hunton Privacy

JUNE 7, 2012

On May 24, 2012, Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley announced that South Shore Hospital agreed to a consent judgment and $750,000 payment to settle a lawsuit stemming from a data breach that occurred in February 2010.

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Hunton Privacy

MARCH 19, 2014

In a notice published in the Federal Register, OCR stated that the survey will collect information such as “number of patient visits or insured lives, use of electronic information, revenue, and business locations” to assess the organizations’ “size, complexity and fitness” for an audit.

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Hunton Privacy

JUNE 14, 2012

On June 7, 2012, the Federal Trade Commission announced settlement agreements with two businesses that allegedly exposed customers’ sensitive personal information by allowing peer-to-peer (“P2P”) file-sharing software to be installed on their company computers and networks.

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Hunton Privacy

JANUARY 24, 2012

The suit, which was filed in Federal District Court in Minnesota, alleges that Accretive failed to adequately safeguard patients’ protected health information (“PHI”). The laptop was stolen and has not yet been recovered. Read Attorney General Swanson’s announcement and the accompanying complaint.

Privacy 42

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Hunton Privacy

MARCH 22, 2016

In 2012, Accretive entered into a $2.5 million settlement with the Minnesota Attorney General for violations of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (“HIPAA”) and its implementing regulations, and various Minnesota debt collection and consumer protection laws.

Computer and Electronics 40

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Hunton Privacy

MARCH 5, 2015

(“Wyndham”) on whether the FTC has the authority to regulate private companies’ data security under Section 5 of the FTC Act. Wyndham also argued that before bringing a Section 5 enforcement action, the FTC must publish “rules, regulations, or other guidelines” setting out the acceptable security standards. The final outcome of FTC v.

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Hunton Privacy

MAY 9, 2013

On May 7, 2013, the Federal Trade Commission announced that it issued letters to ten data broker companies warning that their practices could violate prohibitions against selling consumer information under the Fair Credit Reporting Act (“FCRA”). Information Search, US Data Corporation and USA People Search.

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Hunton Privacy

JANUARY 13, 2016

The FTC asserted that, in 2012, the Dentrix G5 software incorporated a third party database engine that included a form of data protection that Schein advertised as “encryption.” On January 5, 2016, the Federal Trade Commission announced that dental office management software provider, Henry Schein Practice Solutions, Inc.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 11, 2022

Information security products , services, and professionals have never been in higher demand, making for a world of opportunities for cybersecurity startups. With evolving attack methodologies due to machine learning, quantum computing, and sophisticated nation-state hackers, security startups are receiving record funding.

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