Through the law firm of Baker & Hostetler, CHRISTUS St. John Hospital notified the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office of a breach involving unencrypted patient information on a lost memory stick. The Houston-based hospital learned of the September 25th incident on September 27th, but a search was unsuccessful in recovering the drive, which contained the…
Month: November 2012
Answer to yesterday’s trivia question
The three countries that have reported breaches that affected their entire population (or almost the entire population) are Belize, Israel, and Greece.
Oak River Insurance notifies 2,700 after employee disclosed workers’ compensation claims information
Noah Buhayar of Bloomberg BusinessWeek reports another insurance company has suffered a breach: Oak River Insurance Co., a subsidiary of Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (A), asked clients to guard against identity theft after an employee released some of their personal information. The data are tied to about 2,700 workers’ compensation claimants who had spinal surgery…
VeriFi CCTV & VŠB-Technical University, Data Leaked
Today hacker @DARWINARE announce an attack on biotectix which left the site with a new news posting that had links to futher hacks and leaks and defacement mirrors. The two other sites that have been breached are VeriFi CCTV (www.verifi-cctv.com) & VŠB-Technical University (/www.vsb.cz/en/) and both are apart of the OpBigBrother operation. The leaks from each site have been…
Biotectix hacked, defaced for #OpBigBrother
Not to long ago anonymous hacktivist kicked up an operation against surveillance system and the company’s that provide these services in many different forms, that operation was named OpBigBrother. Today a hacker who uses the handle @DARWINARE has announced an attack on the BioTectix (https://www.biotectix.com) site which is being used as a press released and operation release page for the operation…
UK: Man charged over hacking attempts involving universities and Kent Police
Cambridge News reports: A man has been charged with cyber attacks on the websites of Cambridge University. Lewys Martin, 20, is also accused of cyber attacks on the websites of Oxford University, and Kent Police. Martin, of Walmer, Kent, faces charges relating to the theft and use of personal data and allegedly failing to disclose…