Over the past week there has been huge attention to a leak of data from the Japanese mobile giant NTT DoCoMo in the name of it supporting CISPA. The news has been a big subject across many different Japanese sites after @LulzSecWiki released a dump of accounts that contain personal credentials. Today the same account has announce…
Month: April 2013
Hope Hospice notifies patients after email with PHI sent insecurely on two occasions
Hope Hospice officials say they recently discovered a possible information security breach after a routine check found that an employee had e-mailed a report of recent referral and admission activity to themselves through an unsecured channel. Information in the e-mail, which was sent in December and again in February, included names of over 800 Hope…
Follow-up: How did a hacker get into UGA system?
Joe Johnson reports some of the follow-up on University of Georgia hack disclosed last year: University of Georgia officials thought they may have been under attack from multiple hackers when the identities of thousands of employees and students went missing last fall. But it turned out to be the work of a single person, a…
Why LivingSocial’s 50-million password breach is graver than you may think
Dan Goodin critiques LivingSocial’s statements about the security of their passwords, noting how using SHA1 hashed passwords is not a particularly strong method, even though salting the passwords helps. Read his coverage on Ars Technica.
TN: Mayor’s donation check among records found in dumpster
Andy Wise reports: The director of an adult literacy charity is trying to figure out how the personal information of former associates and donors, including Memphis Mayor AC Wharton, were piled up inside the charity’s dumpster. “It absolutely should not have happened,” said Kevin Dean, executive director of Literacy Mid-South, based in Cooper-Young. “It was…
FOX6 Investigators: ID theft kept secret by IRS
Fox6 puts a human face on the problems of identity theft, with a focus on how the IRS has not notified people whose identity information (Social Security number) was misused. Frustratingly, the IRS was saying it couldn’t disclose such information because of the privacy rights of the identity thieves. A law passed to remedy some…