Last week, LivingSocial announced a breach affecting 50 million customers. The breach involved names, email addresses, and passwords, but no Social Security numbers or bank account or credit card information. The breach is getting a lot of press. Last month, I reported on a lawsuit in which a John Doe company alleges the IRS apparently…
Month: April 2013
U.K. school in fresh security breach
Lucy Kenderdine reports: Police are probing a serious information breach at an Oldham school following the internet posting of confidential student details. More than 110 documents, including exclusion records, academic information and behaviour patterns at Hathershaw College from 2007 to 2009 were made available for anyone to download. Photos of pupils at the Bellfield Avenue…
UK: NHS patients can stop their data being shared, says Jeremy Hunt
NHS patients must be able to object to their personal data being shared, despite the major benefits that can be had from making it more accessible, Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt has said. His comments came in response to Dame Fiona Caldicott’s information governance review, which found that health and social care organisations had become excessively…
Iris Scans Seen Shrinking $7 Billion Medical Data Breach: Health
Kristen Hallam reports: Iris scanners aren’t just for airport border-control agents and spy movies anymore. Clinics and hospitals around the world are acquiring technology that identifies people based on physical traits to improve patient safety and stamp out fraud. HCA Holdings Inc. (HCA) hospitals in London, as well as health-care providers across the U.S., are…
Report: Utah’s health data breach cost a costly mistake
Kirsten Stewart reports: Utah’s 2012 health data breach — a security slip that exposed the personal information of three-quarters of a million residents to hackers — was a costly mistake. The state has spent about $9 million on security audits, upgrades and credit monitoring for victims — and that’s just the beginning. An estimated 122,000…
NTT DoCoMo Releases Notice its been Breached, Apologizes for the credentials leaked
Updated: Translation put together of the press release, credits to YEP A few days ago i did a report on a leak of data that has come from Japanese mobile phone giant DoCoMo that contains credential leak. Over the past few days this site alone has had tens of thousands of hits in relation to…