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First Multistate HIPAA Data Breach Lawsuit May Signal Increased State Interest in Data Security Enforcement

Data Matters

On December 3, 2018, twelve attorneys general (“AGs”) jointly filed a data breach lawsuit against Medical Informatics Engineering and its subsidiary, NoMoreClipboard LLC (collectively “the Company”), an electronic health records company, in federal district court in Indiana. See Indiana v. Informatics Eng’g, Inc. , 3:18-cv-00969 (N.D.

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List of data breaches and cyber attacks in October 2018 – 44,701,278 records leaked

IT Governance

These monthly blogs will now look at three lesser-known stories in detail, as well as give a total number for all records exposed in the month. The representative did a “visual review” of the buckets, as USPS’s internal policy is not to plug any USB sticks into a computer (not all bad practice, eh?), Social insurance numbers.

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List of data breaches and cyber attacks in October 2018 – 44,701,278 records leaked

IT Governance

These monthly blogs will now look at three lesser-known stories in detail, as well as give a total number for all records exposed in the month. The representative did a “visual review” of the buckets, as USPS’s internal policy is not to plug any USB sticks into a computer (not all bad practice, eh?), Social insurance numbers.

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Weekly podcast: NHS upgrade, $242m Equifax loss and prison hacker jailed

IT Governance

However, a large part of the loss has been offset by the company’s cyber insurance: Equifax announced that it maintains “$125 million of cybersecurity insurance coverage, above a $7.5 million deductible”, and, since announcing the cyber security incident in September 2017, has “recorded insurance recoveries of $60.0

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Fund Managers Targeted in Sophisticated Cyberattacks

Data Matters

For remote access to emails, trading systems and other electronic data containing confidential information, the authentication mechanism should utilize at least two of the following factors: what a person knows (e.g., standard login passwords). hardware tokens and one-time passwords). what a person has (e.g., biometrics).

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Fund Managers Targeted in Sophisticated Cyberattacks

Data Matters

For remote access to emails, trading systems and other electronic data containing confidential information, the authentication mechanism should utilize at least two of the following factors: what a person knows (e.g., standard login passwords). hardware tokens and one-time passwords). what a person has (e.g., biometrics).

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List of data breaches and cyber attacks in December 2020 – 148 million records breached

IT Governance

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