The Associated Press reports that a federal appeals court rejected two veterans’ claims for monetary damages in their lawsuit over a 2007 computer security breach at the Birmingham, Ala., VA hospital. As in other breach lawsuits reported in the past, the court held that Jim Henry Perkins and Jessie Frank Qualls had to prove actual…
Category: Breaches
Indiana Sues ‘Robo-Call’ Violator
WIBC reports that Indiana’s Attorney General’s has filed a lawsuit against Texas-based Association Health Care Management, Inc. over robo-calls. Indiana has a state Auto Dialer Act that requires that a live operator obtain the consumer’s permission before playing the recorded message. This is not the first time that Association Health Care Management, Inc. has run…
Data Breaches Undeterred by Laws or Common Sense
The Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC) has released a press release with some mid-year statistics on U.S. breaches this year based on the 250 incidents (pdf) they have recorded through June 15. One of their key findings is that both malicious attacks on databases and incidents involving paper breaches represent proportionally greater percentages of breaches…
Breach Data-Sharing Site Started
The risk management technology company Intersections Inc. and the Identity Theft Assistance Center were expected to unveil Breachcenter.com today, a Web site where companies that have suffered a data breach can share their experiences. Since data breaches often catch companies unprepared, the flow of information about the incidents tends to be slow, which can aggravate…