Federal Police have issued a stern warning to computer hackers who have been trying to crash Australian government websites. Hacking movement Anonymous has been credited with infiltrating government and company websites across the world, and now members of the group have set their sights on Australia. Acting under the banner of the Anonymous movement, hackers…
Month: August 2012
UK: Marston Properties signs undertaking after employee payroll info left in filing cabinet sent to recycling center
Ah, missed this one as there was no press release to accompany it. An undertaking to comply with the seventh data protection principle has been signed by Marston Properties. This follows the loss of 37 staff members’ details when the filing cabinet the information was stored in was sent to a recycling centre and crushed. The…
Official Australian honda news site hacked
Yet another automotive based website has been hacked and as a result left defaced. The website is owned by Honda Australia and is their news website for all things Honda https://honda.net.au/. The attack comes right in the middle of the current anonymous operation dubbed opaustralia which is fighting purposed security laws within Australia. The attack has nothing…
Ca: Dumpster records doctor will not be charged
The Regina Leader-Post staff reports the follow-up on a Saskatchewan breach reported previously on this blog: The doctor who was responsible for patient files found in a Regina recycling bin last March will not be charged. The provincial Information and Privacy Commissioner Gary Dickson conducted a four-month investigation last year and recommended that the Minister…
Federal court – no authority to enforce HIPAA in private actions
An interesting federal case in the Southern District of Ohio Eastern Division reminds us that the HIPAA statute does not provide for a private cause of action. And so, when the Ohio Hospital for Psychiatry sought to compel a former employee to return patient information she had allegedly removed improperly, the court had to deny…
Blizzard.net hacked
From their official statement: Even when you are in the business of fun, not every week ends up being fun. This week, our security team found an unauthorized and illegal access into our internal network here at Blizzard. We quickly took steps to close off this access and began working with law enforcement and security…