IT Governance

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Another small firm suffers a serious ransomware attack: Cadre Services gets mauled by AlphV Date of breach: 19 September 2013 (AlphV uploaded first part of data to its website on 19 October 2023). D-Link Corporation Provides Details about an Information Disclosure Security Incident Date of breach: 2 October 2023.

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Security Affairs

JULY 9, 2019

The security breach was discovered earlier this year, hackers also accessed data stored in the Literacy Works Information System and a legacy unemployment insurance service database. Exposed data includes first names, last names, social security numbers, dates of birth, city or county of residence, graduation dates and record numbers.

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Hunton Privacy

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

On November 4, 2013, the China Insurance Regulatory Commission, which is the Chinese regulatory and administrative authority for the insurance sector, issued the Interim Measures for the Management of the Authenticity of Information of Life Insurance Customers (the “Measures”).

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Hunton Privacy

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

Hunton & Williams Insurance Litigation & Counseling partner Lon Berk reports: As the demand for cyber insurance has skyrocketed, so too has the cost. One broker estimates that sales in 2014 will double from the $1 billion premium collected in 2013. As these payment technologies become prevalent in the U.S.,

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Hunton Privacy

OCTOBER 15, 2013

On October 7, 2013, the United States District Court for the Central District of California held that a general liability insurance policy covered data breach claims alleging violations of California patients’ right to medical privacy. Hartford Casualty Insurance Co. Corcino & Associates , CV 13-03728-GAF (C.D.

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Hunton Privacy

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

Securities and Exchange Commission that its health insurance subsidiary, Triple-S Salud, Inc. Triple S”), which is Puerto Rico’s largest health insurer, will be fined $6.8 million for a data breach that occurred in September 2013. Triple-S Management Corporation reported in the 8-K it recently filed with the U.S.

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Hunton Privacy

JULY 16, 2021

According to the Regulators, the Proposed Guidance largely would adopt the text of the OCC’s 2013 guidance, broadening its scope to include organizations supervised by all three Regulators.

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Hunton Privacy

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

The settlement stemmed from the theft of two laptops stolen from Horizon headquarters in November 2013, when personnel from outside vendors performing renovations and moving services at Horizon’s Newark headquarters had unsupervised access to the area where company laptops were stored. Under the terms of the settlement, in addition to the $1.1

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Security Affairs

MAY 3, 2021

The issue was reported to KrebsOnSecurity by the independent security researcher Bill Demirkapi , who discovered the data exposure while shopping around for student loan vendors online. Data security has always been, and always will be, our highest priority.”. But this doesn’t address the systemic issue at all.”. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 27, 2020

The man operated the Cardplanet site between at least early 2009 through at least August 2013. The membership also requested a sum of money, normally $5,000, as insurance. The post The man behind Cardplanet credit card market sentenced to 9 years in prison appeared first on Security Affairs. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Hunton Privacy

JUNE 13, 2023

On June 6, 2023, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (“FDIC”), the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (“FRB”) and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (“OCC”) issued their final Interagency Guidance on Third-Party Relationships (“Guidance”).

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IT Governance

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

9 million records breached through decade-long data leak A former temporary employee of a subsidiary of NTT West (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone West Corp) illegally accessed about 9 million personal data records over the course of a decade (2013 to 2023). Breached records: more than 56 million.

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Hunton Privacy

JANUARY 16, 2021

The Court held that OCR’s civil monetary penalty for alleged violations of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (“HIPAA”) Privacy Rule and HIPAA Security Rule was “arbitrary, capricious, and otherwise unlawful.”. OCR investigated and imposed the $4.3

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IG Guru

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has imposed a $1,600,000 civil money penalty against the Texas Health and Human Services Commission (TX HHSC), for violations of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) Privacy and Security Rules between 2013 […]. The post OCR Imposes a $1.6

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Hunton Privacy

FEBRUARY 3, 2017

million civil monetary penalty against Children’s Medical Center of Dallas (“Children’s”) for alleged ongoing violations of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (“HIPAA”) Privacy and Security Rules, following two consecutive breaches of patient electronic protected health information (“ePHI”).

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

In 2013, Kurittu worked on investigation involving Kivimaki’s use of the Zbot botnet, among other activities Kivimaki engaged in as a member of the hacker group Hack the Planet. Among those who grabbed a copy of the database was Antti Kurittu , a former criminal investigator at the Helsinki Police Department.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

Mr. Davies was charged with murder and fraud after he attempted to collect GBP 132,000 in her life insurance payout, but British prosecutors ultimately conceded they did not have enough evidence to convict him. A search on John Clifton Davies and Iryna turned up this 2013 story from The Daily Mirror which says Iryna is John C.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 26, 2022

Luckily for cybersecurity startups, there’s no shortage of interest in tomorrow’s next big security vendors. billion in 2021, and growing concerns over data security , software supply chains , and ransomware suggest the market will remain strong through economic ups and downs. How Do VC Firms Work? AllegisCyber Investments.

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HL Chronicle of Data Protection

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

to support individual and classwide actions for purported data security and privacy violations. 4th 390, 393 (2013) (allowing “unlawful” UCL claim for violations of the federal Truth in Savings Act despite no express private right of action because Congress intended for state laws to hold banks to equivalent standards); see also Zhang v.

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 3, 2018

I have a Yahoo email account, I’ve shopped at Home Depot and Target , my father was in the military and had a security clearance, which included a dossier on his family, archived at the U.S. Office of Personnel Management , I’ve had insurance coverage from Premera Blue Cross and I’ve stayed at the Marriott Marquis in San Francisco.

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Adam Levin

MAY 19, 2021

An undergraduate student at Rochester Institute of Technology named Bill Demirkapi discovered the most recent security failure. The information included driver’s licenses , credit card , and Social Security numbers. The data included addresses, birthdays, and even Social Security numbers. Takeaways .

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 30, 2021

Ronnie Tokazowski is a threat researcher at Agari , a security firm that has closely tracked many of the groups behind these advanced fee schemes [KrebsOnSecurity interviewed Tokazowski in 2018 after he received a security industry award for his work in this area]. ” ANY METHOD THAT WORKS. Image: Agari.

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Hunton Privacy

AUGUST 1, 2013

On April 19, 2013, the North Dakota legislature amended the state’s breach notification law (Section 51-30-01 of the North Dakota Century Code) to expand the definition of “personal information” to include “health insurance information” and “medical information.” The amendments took effect on August 1, 2013.

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The Security Ledger

APRIL 27, 2021

The post Episode 212: China’s Stolen Data Economy (And Why We Should Care) appeared first on The Security Ledger with Paul F. Back in 2013, news that hackers stole data on tens of millions of customers of the software maker Adobe dominated the headlines for days. Read the whole entry. » Waiting for Federal Data Privacy Reform?

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Hunton Privacy

JANUARY 17, 2013

The Final Rule will become effective March 26, 2013, with covered entities and business associates obligated to comply with the new requirements by September 23, 2013. The Final Rule comes two and a half years after the proposed rule was published in July 2010.

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Hunton Privacy

AUGUST 10, 2017

Circuit reversed the dismissal of a putative data breach class action against health insurer CareFirst, Attias v. The court found that the complaint did in fact allege the theft of Social Security numbers and payment card information. On August 1, 2017, a unanimous three-judge panel for the D.C. CareFirst, Inc. , 16-7108, slip op.

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Hunton Privacy

FEBRUARY 6, 2015

On February 3, 2015, the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) released a Risk Alert , entitled Cybersecurity Examination Sweep Summary, summarizing observations from the recent round of cybersecurity examinations of registered broker-dealers and investment advisers under the Cybersecurity Examination Initiative.

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Hunton Privacy

JULY 12, 2013

On July 11, 2013, the Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) announced a resolution agreement and $1.7 following a security breach that affected over 600,000 individuals. million settlement with WellPoint Inc. In a not-so-subtle hint of OCR’s future intentions, the press release also mentioned that “Beginning Sept.

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Hunton Privacy

DECEMBER 3, 2018

Each Referential lists the purposes of the data processing in question, the legal basis for that data processing, the types of personal data that may be processed for those purposes, the data retention periods and the associated security measures.

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Hunton Privacy

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

On November 22, 2016, the Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) announced a $650,000 settlement with University of Massachusetts Amherst (“UMass”), resulting from alleged violations of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (“HIPAA”) Privacy and Security Rules. .

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Hunton Privacy

AUGUST 7, 2013

On August 6, 2013, the Obama Administration posted links on The White House Blog to reports from the Departments of Commerce , Homeland Security and Treasury containing recommendations on incentivizing companies to align their cybersecurity practices with the Cybersecurity Framework.

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Hunton Privacy

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

Today, September 23, 2013, marks the deadline for compliance with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (“HIPAA”) Omnibus Rule that was issued in January 2013. Change the notice of privacy practices to be distributed to individuals.

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ARMA International

APRIL 28, 2022

I have been a member of the OAR staff at the ANO since March 2013. The plan was to meet the insurance coordinator at the Howard Avenue office at 8:30 a.m. I was aware that I would need documentation on damage and losses for insurance and internal purposes. The insurance coordinator proposed stabilizing in place.

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CGI

JANUARY 22, 2016

This blog focuses on the new Network and Information Security Directive (NISD) which was agreed at the same time and also has significant implications for business. The likely implications will be: Organisations will need to be able to demonstrate that they have taken ‘appropriate security measures’.

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HL Chronicle of Data Protection

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

to support individual and classwide actions for purported data security and privacy violations. 4th 390, 393 (2013) (allowing “unlawful” UCL claim for violations of the federal Truth in Savings Act despite no express private right of action because Congress intended for state laws to hold banks to equivalent standards); see also Zhang v.

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HL Chronicle of Data Protection

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

to support individual and classwide actions for purported data security and privacy violations. 4th 390, 393 (2013) (allowing “unlawful” UCL claim for violations of the federal Truth in Savings Act despite no express private right of action because Congress intended for state laws to hold banks to equivalent standards); see also Zhang v.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

The internet is fraught with peril these days, but nothing strikes more fear into users and IT security pros than the threat of ransomware. Raising awareness about ransomware is a baseline security measure. As training sessions have little influence over staff for every potential attack, it makes added security more imperative.

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