Rich Daly reports: Strong state privacy laws continue to complicate health information exchanges’ efforts to ease health-data sharing, a senior federal health technology official said Monday. And a key to overcoming such obstacles may be greater use of meta tags. Joy Pritts, chief privacy officer in the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information…
Month: August 2012
New Zealand Developer & Hosting WebMate Hacked, Defaced
A New Zealand based web development and hosting company has become victims to hackers after its main site and webhost site was hacked and left defaced. The company is web mate www.webmate.co.nz and the hosting website appeared to look just like the main website but on a different domain /webmatehost.co.nz. The attack happened earlier today some time and was uploaded to the zone-h website along with…
Mitchell Rangers Soccer Club Hacked, Defaced, Restored
Yet another Australian based website has been attacked and left with a defacing on it. The website belongs to the Mitchell Rangers Soccer Club mitchellrangers.org.au/ and the attack has been carried out by "Hack-School". The defacing was mirrored on the well know zone-h website by "The Dark Hacker" and was logged earlier today and has just recently been restored by…
Torrent Site ScanBits.org Hacked, 9000 Accounts Leaked
A torrent site has fallen victim to hackers who have obtained access to its database and grabbed a copy of it totalling over 300mb. The torrent site is scanbits.org and along with the dump comes 9000+ user accounts with full account information, emails, encrypted passwords and more. The leaked data has also shown that they website is logging…
Former BPO employee arrested for credit card fraud
Another BPO/outsourcing breach involving an insider: A former BPO employee was arrested from his Southwest Delhi residence on Sunday for allegedly using stolen credit card details to make purchases worth Rs 11 lakh from an e-commerce website — mydala.com. […] Jha, police said, is a commerce graduate from Delhi University’s School of Open Learning and…
Laptop with Apria Healthcare patient information stolen – yes, from an unattended vehicle!
Seen in today’s Arizona Daily Star: After a security breach, Apria Healthcare is offering 11,000 affected patients free credit monitoring. The California-based healthcare company says 4,178 patients in Arizona were affected, including 1,100 in Southern Arizona. The company offers home healthcare services and products, including home oxygen therapy, sleep apnea equipment, home medical equipment and…