If Congress were to enact a national data breach notification law, what key provisions should be included in the legislation? Public policy advocate David Valdez stresses uniformity.
In this week's breach roundup, read about the latest incidents, including a Missouri Credit Union breach in which personal information about members was briefly exposed on its website.
In this week's breach roundup, Ferris State University in Michigan is notifying 39,000 individuals that their Social Security numbers and other personal information may have been exposed as a result of a network breach.
The Department of Health and Human Services is seeking speedy approval of its controversial proposal to require state health insurance exchanges to report data breaches within one hour of discovery.
HHS proposes that state insurance exchanges report data breaches within one hour after discovering them. CIO Curt Kwak of the Washington state exchange explains why compliance with such a rule would be challenging.
In this week's breach roundup, read how a second member of the LulzSec hacktivist group has been sentenced for his involvement in the Sony Pictures entertainment computer breach.
In this week's breach roundup, read about a mailing error that exposed information about Medicaid patients in Missouri as well as a fine issued against the Bank of Scotland for repeated fax errors.
In this week's breach roundup, read about why Nintendo is urging members in Japan to reset their passwords following a breach that exposed personal information.
Some organizations may need to reconsider how they assess whether incidents are reportable breaches under the HIPAA Omnibus Rule, explains privacy expert Kate Borten.
In this week's breach roundup, read about how hackers breached a Michigan health department's computers, as well as a new incident of a stolen laptop affecting University of South Carolina students.
Federal regulators are proposing that the state health insurance exchanges created under healthcare reform must report data breaches within an hour. Is that a reasonable requirement?
In this week's breach roundup, read about the latest incidents, including a Florida Department of Education breach affecting 47,000 and an incident at a Canadian medical lab.
Despite the new instructions on breach notification in the HIPAA Omnibus Rule, there's still plenty of uncertainty about what constitutes a "compromise" of data that triggers notification, says privacy attorney Adam Greene.
In this week's breach roundup, read about the latest incidents, including Drupal.org resetting passwords after the open-source content management framework provider discovered unauthorized access to account information.
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