It was heartbreaking to watch the reports of Hurricane Ian as it landed on the west coast of Florida. The damage and losses left in its wake will be overwhelming and catastrophic for Floridians; the toll will become clearer over the next few days. While we all feel a sense of hurt and loss for
Florida
Remote ID Ruling For FAA in RaceDayQuads Suit
By Kathryn Rattigan on
Posted in Drones
RaceDayQuads, a racing drone retailer based in Orlando, Florida, and Tyler Brennan, a drone operator (collectively, Petitioners), filed a Petition for Review of the Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) Remote Identification (Remote ID) Rule for drones with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. This week, the Court ruled in favor of the FAA.
Privacy Tip #320 – 2021 Goes Down as Top Year for Fraud
By Linn Foster Freedman on
Posted in Privacy Tips
2021 will go down in our minds as many things, including the year in which more people reported fraud and the highest dollar amount of fraud losses in history. Not a great statistic.
According to the Federal Trade Commission’s Consumer Sentinel Network Data Book 2021 (the Data Book), the FTC received 5.7 million reports from…
Broward Health Data Breach Affects 1.3 Million Individuals
By Linn Foster Freedman on
On January 1, 2022, Broward Health, which operates dozens of health care facilities in Broward County, Florida, notified over 1.3 million individuals that a threat actor gained access to and removed data from its system on October 15, 2021. The data exfiltrated and compromised included individuals’ names, addresses, dates of birth, driver’s license numbers, Social…
Blackbaud Must Face CCPA Claims in Multi-district Class Action from Data Breach
By Linn Foster Freedman on
Posted in CCPA, Enforcement + Litigation
Blackbaud, which suffered a data breach of its customers’ data in a ransomware attack in 2020, in which it admitted paying the ransom in a double extortion attack [view related posts], is facing multiple class action cases following the attack. The cases have been consolidated in multi-district litigation and now comprise 29 cases.
The…
Florida Unemployment Benefit Site Breached
By Linn Foster Freedman on
Posted in Cybersecurity, Data Breach
The Florida Department of Economic Opportunity (DEO) recently announced that it discovered on July 16, 2021 that its online unemployment benefit system, CONNECT was compromised, potentially affecting personal information of 57,000 accounts.
The information that may have been accessed in the incident includes individuals’ “personal details” including “social security number, driver’s license number, bank account…
School Nutrition Vendor Sued for Compromise of 867,209 K-12 Student Records
By Linn Foster Freedman on
Posted in New + Now
PCS Revenue Control Systems, Inc. (PCS) was hit with a proposed class action lawsuit last week alleging that it discovered a data breach from a hacking attack in December 2019 but failed to notify the affected students until March of 2021.
According to the lawsuit, student information was collected by PCS’s predecessor, Advanced Business Technologies…
Canon Hit with Data Breach Class Action Suit by Former and Current Employees
By Kathryn Rattigan on
Posted in Enforcement + Litigation
Canon U.S.A. Inc. (Canon) was hit with a class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York this week for the ransomware attack that exposed current and former employees’ personal information in November 2020. The plaintiffs reside in Ohio, New York, Florida and Illinois, and allege that Canon was…
GEO Group Hit with Ransomware Attack
By Linn Foster Freedman on
Posted in Cybersecurity
The GEO Group, Inc. (GEO), a publicly held company located in Boca Raton Florida, announced on November 3, 2020, that it is beginning to notify individuals following a ransomware attack that “impacted a limited amount of personally identifiable information and protected health information for some inmates and residents contained on certain servers for a small…
OCR Settles with NY Spine for Failure to Provide Access to Records
By Linn Foster Freedman on
Posted in HIPAA and Health Information
Continuing its enforcement priority of assisting patients with obtaining access to their health records, the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) recently settled its ninth case with a covered entity that it alleged failed to provide proper access of health records to a patient.
NY Spine Medicine, a medical practice providing neurological and pain management series…