We should have known or at least guessed. Trip Jennings provides additional background on the Public Employees Retirement Association of New Mexico breach reported previously on this blog. Parked at a Clovis Comfort Inn & Suites, the 2008 white Ford F350 pickup must have seemed an inviting target. Inside the truck’s cab were two laptop…
Month: June 2012
France: donor anonymity holds firm in court case
James Brooks reports: A French court has effectively reaffirmed the country’s policy of gamete donor anonymity by rejecting a donor-conceived woman’s demand for information on her biological father. The woman requested that a message be passed on to the man asking whether he would accept to be identified. She was also seeking disclosure of non-identifying information – medical…
Patient Privacy or Scientific Advances: Do They Have to Be Mutually Exclusive?
Alex Philippidis writes about recent trends in addressing privacy concerns in genomic studies. He writes, in part: Dr. McGuire led a research team that published results in Genetics in Medicine last year from their study of consent given to researchers by 323 adults recruited into one of six genome studies at BCM. The adults were randomly assigned…
Belfast Trust fined £225,000 after leaving thousands of patient records in disused hospital
Another big fine from the ICO: Belfast Health and Social Care (BHSC) Trust has been served with a Civil Monetary Penalty (CMP) of £225,000 following a serious breach of the Data Protection Act (DPA), the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) said today. The breach involved the sensitive personal data of thousands of patients and staff, and included medical…
CoBank & CitiBank Internal Access By .c0mrade
@OfficialComrade has released another exploit press release that is aimed at two major banks. Cobank and Citibank. In this release he explains the fact that access has been had for over 1 year to these systems. in the release .c0mrade claims to be contacting the banks "the next morning" and also states that these were…
Comcast Hometown Network Hacked, Defaced, Dataleaked by #UGNAZI @UG
@UG have continued to attack company websites, yesterday it was sixflags and today it is comcast hometown network. The official website for the hometown network appears to of been defaced ( index page only ) and also a leak of accounts has been posted to pastebin. The announcement was made from the @UG twitter account UGNazi @UG https://www.comcasthometown.com/#defaced#UGNazi#lulz#Comcast****UGNazi @UG…