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Stewart International Airport Data Breach Self Inflicted

Stewart  International Airport has a long history.   In 1930 Thomas Stewart convinced his Uncle to donate land for an airport to the city.  In 1939 the U.S. Military Academy at West Point  built the first airfield at Stewart and in 1948 it became Stewart Air Force Base.  In 1970 the State of New York bought […]

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Google Sues Uber Over Stolen Documents

Google and Uber are both working on self driving cars, for different reasons.  Google has had a strong lead in the game – until. Google’s self driving car subsidiary called Waymo says it has spent millions of dollars perfecting the technology for self driving cars. A former Google employee, Anthony Levandowski, started the self driving […]

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Do Employers Have To Protect Employee’s Personal Information?

At least in Pennsylvania, a court says the answer is no.  Here are the details. The University of Pennsylvania Medical Center was hacked and employee’s personal information was taken and used to file phony tax refunds.  Information taken included names, socials, birth dates, addresses and salaries. The Superior Court of Pennsylvania recently ruled that employees […]

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Hospital System Fined $5.5 Million For Not Controlling Access

Memorial Healthcare Systems in Florida was fined $5.5 million for allowing the information of about 115,000 patients to be accessed “impermissibly”. Memorial, which operates 6 hospitals, an urgent care center, a nursing home and other healthcare facilities in South Florida, reported the breach in 2012 – 5 years ago – after it discovered the problem. […]

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