Liz Kowalczyk reports: A doctor from Brigham and Women’s/Faulkner Hospital lost an external hard drive on June 21, and the device may have contained medical information for 638 patients. The Brigham has sent a letter to those patients describing the problem. Patients who have questions can call toll-free at 877-694-3367. Information related to inpatient hospital…
Month: August 2011
US gov to scoop out defcon for hackers 4 hire
Defcon, a convention for hackers to share, brag and learn, Started by Jeff Moss in 1993, and has become the worlds largest and most well known hacker convention. Over the past we have seen government agency’s attending defcon and its no different this year, with Anonymous and lulzsec out in force there is sure to be…
n-europe.com hacked by @V0iD_Hacker
Gamers, you have been hit again, a nintendio site has had a small amount of users leaked from its database. the site m-europe.com was founded in 1998 and started as n64 europe, anyways the leak dat acontains plain text passwords, forum name and email. Note from release: Shit, V0iD is back! Yup, this time with some…
(update) Travelodge blames ‘vindictive individual’ for email database breach
John Leyden has a follow-up on an e-mail hack The Register initially revealed in June and that I covered on this blog. Travelodge UK’s explanation doesn’t fully answer my questions, but here’s part of it: This enquiry has thoroughly examined our own IT infrastructures and databases and those belonging to our suppliers as well. The…
View one year of Medical Identity Theft
The World Privacy Forum has constructed an interactive map that highlights the location of all medical ID theft complaints collected from 2008- Feb. 12, 2009 by the Federal Trade Commission.
Sonia Gandhi’s health can’t be a state secret. It’s not about privacy
R Jagannathan writes: There are only questions, and no answers so far, on Sonia Gandhi’s illness that required a surgery. One, how can the nation’s most powerful political leader, virtual chief executive of the ruling party, not let us know that there was something for us to be concerned about? Two, how is it that…