BreachExchange mailing list archives

Re: (update) UT: U. patient records recovered


From: "TS Glassey" <tglassey () earthlink net>
Date: Thu, 3 Jul 2008 07:16:37 -0800


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael Hill, CITRMS" <mhill () idtexperts com>
To: "Jake Schroeder" <jschroeder () wavelink com>; "lyger" 
<lyger () attrition org>; <dataloss () attrition org>
Sent: Wednesday, July 02, 2008 7:26 PM
Subject: Re: [Dataloss] (update) UT: U. patient records recovered


You have to love this case.

   Winder said the courier will not face charges and is instead 
considered
a victim in the case.

How is the courier a victim when their employee violated company policy 
and
probably some state and/or federal laws as well?

   One lawsuit filed by Christensen & Jensen against Perpetual Storage 
and
the U. demands the university extend credit monitoring for at least five
years; offer five years worth of fraud protection that would alert
patients before new lines of credit are opened; and provide victims money
and legal counsel to restore their credit and identities and money to
reimburse them for money lost due to identity theft.

Are there any identity theft protection plans that include access to legal
counsel?

Not that I am aware of. If you asked a lawyer what to do most of them 
couldnt tell you either... Unless they are cutting edge and have experience 
in this area. This is all new material for many of them.


   Before this afternoon's news conference, attorney Scot Boyd, who is
representing 11 plaintiffs and potentially "hundreds" more in that
lawsuit, couldn't say whether the recovery of the tapes would nullify the
lawsuit. But in court filings, he wrote that it wouldn't, noting the
thieves could copy the information and return the original tapes.

Can you detect whether a tape has been copied?  Can any techies out there
answer that?

Probably not. If it had been a disk drive there are some SMART control's 
that could be used with a proper Disk Management Regimen to tell if a disk 
had been powered up since its last shutdown, but copying tapes is not likely 
to be something that can be determined.


   In a separate lawsuit against Perpetual, patient Thelma Keachie 
demands
$8 million to monitor and repair credit reports for at least five years
and track the use of other private information for a lifetime.

I dont get that she is entitled to a lifetime's tracking. As it happens most 
of our financial info is already out in the open. So my take is that this 
wont fly too well.

Todd Glassey CISM CIFI


Now that's a solution.


Mike


Michael Hill
Certified Identity Theft Risk Management Specialist
www.idtheft101.net
404-216-3751


"If You Think You're Not At Risk, Think Again!"


NOTICE:
This email and any attachment to it is confidential and protected by law 
and
intended for the use of the individual(s) or entity named on the email.
This information and all email information from the sender is not legal
advice nor legal representation and should not be construed as legal 
advice
nor legal representation. Check with your attorney in your State for legal
advice. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you 
are
hereby notified that any dissemination or distribution of this 
communication
is prohibited.  If you have received this communication in error, please
notify the sender via return email and delete it completely from your 
email
system.  If you have printed a copy of the email, please destroy it
immediately.

_______________________________________________
Dataloss Mailing List (dataloss () attrition org)
http://attrition.org/dataloss

Tenable Network Security offers data leakage and compliance monitoring
solutions for large and small networks. Scan your network and monitor your
traffic to find the data needing protection before it leaks out!
http://www.tenablesecurity.com/products/compliance.shtml


--------------------------------------------------------------------------------



No virus found in this incoming message.
Checked by AVG.
Version: 8.0.134 / Virus Database: 270.4.3/1529 - Release Date: 7/1/2008 
7:23 PM

_______________________________________________
Dataloss Mailing List (dataloss () attrition org)
http://attrition.org/dataloss

Tenable Network Security offers data leakage and compliance monitoring
solutions for large and small networks. Scan your network and monitor your
traffic to find the data needing protection before it leaks out!
http://www.tenablesecurity.com/products/compliance.shtml


Current thread: