Fortinet on Thursday confirmed suffering a data breach impacting customers after a hacker leaked files allegedly belonging to the cybersecurity company. The hacker, who uses the online moniker ‘Fortibitch’, made the announcement on a popular hacking forum and claimed that the data — 440 Gb in total — came from an Azure Sharepoint instance.
As businesses move online and data becomes a critical asset, organizations must navigate a minefield of potential threats. And with the news Thursday (Sept. 12) that Lehigh Valley Health Network (LVHN), one of the largest primary care groups in Pennsylvania, has paid a $65 million settlement to patients impacted by a breach that saw their sensitive personal information stolen by a criminal ransomware gang, socializing best practices across the entire organization and fostering a culture of security is top of mind for firms across sectors — particularly for leaders like chief information security officers (CISOs).
Hospitals, insurance companies, and debt collectors need to step up their communication efforts to prevent the illegal collection of medical debts that have been previously paid or covered by providers’ charity care programs, according to the CFPB in its report to Congress on the status of the FDCPA, issued on September 5, 2024. Communication to consumers from debt collectors should provide more specific information about debts to enable consumers to identify the accounts on which collectors seek payment, as well.
On June 28, in Loper Bright v. Raimondo, et al., the Supreme Court overturned the Chevron deference doctrine, a long-standing tenet of administrative law established in 1984 in Chevron U.S.A., Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. This doctrine directed courts to defer to a government agency’s interpretation of a statute if the statute was ambiguous regarding, or simply did not address, the issue before the court, as long as the interpretation was reasonable.
Student loan payments on hold as a result of COVID-19 were due to resume in September 2023, and while borrowers who have not resumed payments are seeing interest accrue on those accounts, there has been a grace period and those accounts have not been reported as delinquent to the credit bureaus.
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