In light of the President’s recent call for enactment of the Personal Data Notification and Protection Act, containing a 30-day notification deadline, it’s worth noting that at present most state breach laws require state residents to be notified “without unreasonable delay,” which strikes me as a better compromise. Only Florida (30 days), Ohio (45 days), VT (45 days) and […]
Tag: Data Breach
Breach Update: Home Depot Confirms 56 Million Cards Impacted
Over the past week we’ve been assisting clients in responding to the recent confirmed Home Depot breach. While information regarding the scale and scope of the breach of point-of-sale systems in the U.S. and Canada has been developing, Home Depot’s release late yesterday of an updated press release (available here), provides additional public details: 56 million […]
Join us June12 at IAPP KnowledgeNet CT
Please join us at the upcoming IAPP KnowledgeNet CT on June 12 4-6pm at the offices of Shipman & Goodwin LLP, One Constitution Plaza, Hartford, CT 06103. Refreshments will be served. Our topic: Data Breach Responses: Practical Lessons From the Target Trenches and Beyond Our meeting will include featured speakers and a group round table discussion […]
Upcoming Webinar April 17 – “Data Breach Aftermaths”
Join us for our April 17 webinar, Data Breach Aftermath: Next Steps To Clean Up The Mess, hosted by the National Constitution Center, with details, registration and agenda information available here. Data Breaches have unfortunately become near daily occurrences, with news reports – like those covering Target’s recent mammoth breach – sending chills up the […]
BYOD Doesn’t Mean “Bring Your Own Data Breach”
4th Annual Ponemon Benchmark Study – Reveals New Problems for PHI Security Same as it ever was? You’d be forgiven for thinking that after reading the Fourth Annual Benchmark Study on Patient Privacy & Data Security Report (the “Study”). Conducted by the Ponemon Institute and sponsored by our friends at ID Experts, the picture […]
New Ponemon Data Breach Study Finds Breach Costs Have Fallen
Since its first issue seven years ago, the Ponemon Institute’s annual Cost of Data Breach Study (“CDBS”) has become a must read for privacy and breach professionals. The latest CDBS study, covering the 2011 year, can be considered a bookend to Verizon’s annual Data Breach Investigations Report, which 2012 edition was likewise recently released The […]
Blumenthal Bill Bumps Up Big Fines for Data Thefts and Security Breaches
Late last week Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) introduced a one-hundred page bill, dubbed the Personal Data Protection and Breach Accountability Act of 2011, S.1535, (the “PDPBA Act”), referred to the Senate Judiciary Committee, that if ultimately passed would levy significant penalties for identify theft and other “violations of data privacy and security,” criminalize as felonies […]
Health Net Agrees to $250,000 Fine and “Corrective Action Plan” to Settle Loss of PHI
It didn’t take long for an Attorney General to latch onto Title XII of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (a/k/a the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act [the HITECH Act]) in order to convince a covered entity to enter a data loss-related settlement. Indeed, Heath Net of the North […]
