ONE News in New Zealand reveals a government department has had a series of privacy breaches. Following soon after the breach involving the Ministry of Social Development, reports of inadequate data protection involving the Inland Revenue Department are just what the government doesn’t need. Even worse, the department is getting a black eye in the press for…
Month: October 2012
WA: Prescription drug tracking system illegally accessed (updated)
From the this-can’t-be-good dept.: This week Washington’s Prescription Monitoring Program sent letters to 34 people whose records were illegally accessed by someone who used a physician’s identity. The doctor’s personal and professional information was used to set up a fraudulent account in the statewide system. […] State health officials immediately deactivated the account when they…
Tax refund fraud linked to health care documents
Elaine Silvestrini reports on yet another case out of Florida where patient data was misused for tax refund fraud: When the Florida Highway Patrol arrested a Tampa man during a traffic stop last year, troopers found evidence of tax refund fraud, including internal corporate documents from a Tampa-based private health insurance company. The documents from…
Choices.edu hacked 8,000+ accounts leaked
A hacker using the handle Sl3nd3r posted a brief dump a few months ago that came from the databases of the Choices.edu server. In that dump was about 1,000 accounts with encrypted passwords and a message that stated more would be coming soon, that paste has since been removed. Today we have discovered that 9 furthers…
Red Cross Thailand Hacked, Defaced, Administration Accounts Leaked
Turkish Agent Hacker Group member Maxney (@maxn3y) has just contacted us with an attack on the Red Cross’s Thailand website and 7 of its domains and database. The attack is redcross.or.th and seven of its subdomains some of which have already been restored. The attack gave Maxney access to 42 databases for the complete red cross Thailand server. Over…
Programming note, while I think of it…
I’m in an area expected to be hit by Sandy. We’ve been warned we may be without power for 7-10 days. Lovely. So if this blog suddenly stops updating on or after Monday, figure I’ll be back when I can…