Is Local Government being disproportionately targeted by the Information Commissioner? Jonathan Baines looks at the evidence. On 1 July 2011 the Information Commissioner (IC), Christopher Graham, issued a strongly-worded press release, which announced the publication of five undertakings he had required NHS Trusts to sign, following serious breaches of the Data Protection Act 1998 (DPA). In…
Month: July 2011
Demonstration: wiping hard drives is not sufficient to secure PHI
Watch this video. The hard drives belonged to Bayou City Medical Center and over 100,000 files with patient information were recovered containing names, Social Security Numbers, dates of birth, and much more… after the drive had reportedly been wiped and reformatted. I do not know if this breach was ever in the media or reported…
140,000 children could be identity fraud victims
For most people, the thought of their children being victims of identity fraud is even more chilling than being a victim themselves. While children are less at risk for identity fraud than adults, when it happens it can be much more devastating because the fraudulent activity can go undetected for years, making it all that…
CPPS db leak and hanatour.com db dump
A Paste bin paste has surfaced with the title CPPSLEAK, from looking into it, it is a dump of details including user names and hashed passwords. our guess is that the CPPS is https://www.cppssite.com/ https://pastebin.com/9ZfBGBHy Hanatour.com has had its database dumped as well in a not so big leak, but either way its a leak and…
MonsantoCo database re-leaked with further information
OpMonsanto by Anonymous has been going full sail ahead with a earlyer release of Monsanto employees leaked Anonymous has now release the same leak but disclosing further information such as address,contact numbers. Note from the latest paste: We previously leaked 2551 emails and names of MonsantoCo employees and associates for the whole internets to see. Immediately…
400+ FTP accounts leaked by PiraX
piraX has released a leak of 400+ FTP accounts on pastebin, dumping ground for leakers. Anyways in the release notes is a funny lil note… The LulzBoat may be sunken but PiraX keeps ‘a goin’! Have fun! there is no exact reason behind this leak either, but the above statement sort of says they did…