John Byrne and Hal Dardick report: Chicago election board officials confirmed Tuesday that sensitive personal information for about 1,200 people was exposed online but denied allegations by a computer security firm that the breach was much broader. The firm, Forensicon, announced it uncovered the problem while researching voting patterns. It alleged that personal information of…
Month: November 2012
UK Businesses Consider Abusing ICO Data Breach Fine ‘Loophole’
Tom Brewster reports: Organisations have considered using a “loophole” to avoid data breach fines – by asking the privacy regulator, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), to audit them when they already know personal data has been lost or stolen. The UK privacy watchdog has promised not to fine any company for breaches of the Data Protection Act if…
Hospitals use patient data to target ads
Ben Sutherly reports: You might not know it when you seek care from some of central Ohio’s hospital systems, but your health information makes you a potential marketing target. OhioHealth and Mount Carmel Health System routinely mine health data from their patients’ records to decide who should receive certain mailings. The approach — sometimes called…
Ca: More charges in TTC Metropass, credit-card fraud scheme
Chris Doucette reports: Five men arrested earlier this fall for a major fraud scheme involving TTC Metropasses have been slapped with 69 new charges for allegedly stealing data from tens of thousands of credit cards. Toronto Police said the investigation, dubbed Project Rocket, has continued since the accused were arrested Sept. 27 on 33 charges….
Ca: Personal information of nearly 300 Wilfrid Laurier students found online
Elizabeth DiCesare reports: While preparing to apply to Canada’s police forces, Bob Baumgartner, a Wilfrid Laurier University (WLU) graduate, decided to do a Google search of himself, and found more than he was expecting. After typing in his old e-mail address, Baumgartner found a list of 297 former WLU students that included their personal contact…
English Defence League Hacked, Defaced By ZHC
![150px-edl_log_aug_2011](https://www.cyberwarnews.info/content/images/gallery/edl/150px-edl_log_aug_2011.jpg)The English Defense league ([https://englishdefenceleague.org/](https://englishdefenceleague.org/)) has come under major attack by hackers from the well known group ZHC who has for a long time now been fighting for freedom. The attack has been carried out some time in the last 24hrs and is still defaced at time of publishing but whats more interesting is that it would…