According to a press release, Personal Touch, a home health company located on Long Island, has reached a settlement with New York Attorney General Letitia James for $350,000 for a data breach that occurred in January of 2021 when a Personal Touch employee “opened a malware-infected file attached to a phishing email that allowed
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NYAG Issues Fine Against Law Firm for Data Breach
By Linn Foster Freedman on
Posted in New + Now
New York Attorney General Letitia James announced on March 27, 2023 that she had levied a fine against law firm Heidell, Pittoni, Murphy & Bach LLP for failing to secure personal and health information of clients exposing the information in a data breach.
According to the press release, the law firm agreed to pay…