Some updates to the First State Superannuation breach reported previously: 1. First State will not be taking legal action against Patrick Webster, the customer and IT security expert who alerted them to the breach. 2. The Australian Privacy Commissioner will investigate the breach. 3. On October 19, First State issued a statement linked from their home…
Month: October 2011
FBI Probes Sale Of Hospital Patient Information
More on the breach of Florida Hospital patient records by three employees who may have been selling accident victim data to an attorney referral service: WESH in Orlando reports that the FBI is now involved in the case. In related coverage, WFTV reports that “former patients were later solicited by lawyers and funeral homes. In one…
IA: Inmate church says identities were stolen
A United Methodist congregation made up of inmates at the Iowa Correctional Institute for Women in Mitchellville said an Indianola woman and former inmate used its volunteers’ personal information to steal 40 identities. Women at the Well United Methodist Church said Shelley Bridges, 37, obtained victims’ personal information, including Social Security numbers and birth dates,…
UK: Housing group emailed workers’ details to wrong address
As a follow-up to a breach previously reported on this site, the Information Commissioner’s Office found that a private housing group breached the Data Protection Act by sending the personal data of 200 employees to the wrong email address. In March of this year, an employee of Spectrum Housing Group accidentally emailed a non-secure excel…
Team Swastika group hacks 10,000 global Facebook account details – or did they?
Phil Muncaster reports: Security experts are warning web users to ensure they use strong passwords and vary their credentials from site to site after a new hacking group published log-in details of what it claimed to be more than 10,000 Facebook users. Trend Micro’s director of security research, Rik Ferguson, explained in a blog post that the…
Exploiting Privacy Breaches
Cross-posted from PogoWasRight.org: I recently commented on the rush to class action lawsuits that seems to have become the norm. Today, I was interested to see this column by John Halamka, MD, CIO, CareGroup Health System, Harvard Medical School. He writes, in part: As with any profession there are those attorneys who use the law for personal…