Dissent reports “State Department official admits looking at passport files for more than 500 celebrities.” A passport specialist curious about celebrities has admitted she looked into the confidential files of more than 500 famous Americans without authorization. This got me thinking: how does someone peep at 500 files before anyone notices? What’s wrong with the [...]
PHIPrivacy asks “do the HHS breach reports offer any surprises?” It’s now been a full year since the new breach reporting requirements went into effect for HIPAA-covered entities. Although I’ve regularly updated this blog with new incidents revealed on HHS’s web site, it might be useful to look at some statistics for the first year’s [...]
…a Bad Homburg business man won millions in damages in a suit against the [Liechtenstein] bank for failing to reveal that his information was stolen along with hundreds of other account holders and sold to German authorities for a criminal investigation. He argued that if the bank had informed those on the list that their [...]
There is no better illustration of the institutional and social taboos surrounding data breach reporting and information security in general than the Google-Adobe-China affair. While the Big Thinkers at the World Economic Forum discussed every other idea under the sun, this one was taboo.
So it’s been all over everywhere that “uber-sophisticated” hackers walked all over Google’s internal network. Took their source, looked at email interception tools, etc. What’s most fascinating to me is that: Google’s customers don’t seem to be fleeing Google stock fell approximately 4% on the news they were hacked, while the market was down 2% [...]