Raymond Brown reports: An investigation was launched after private details on a massive scale were sent to controversial contractor G4S. The data breach involving personal information about more than 1,000 ‘backroom’ staff at Cambridgeshire, Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire police happened amid negotiations to privatise services. […] The three forces notified the Information Commissioner’s Office in February…
Month: April 2013
Verizon releases it 2013 Data Breach Investigations Report
Verizon has released the Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR). You can download the Executive Summary here and the full report here. The DBIR analyzes data from 19 organizations — covering more than 47,000 reported security incidents and 621 confirmed data breaches from the past year. Because VZ has the cooperation of so many organizations,…
What healthcare CIOs need to know from Verizon data breach report
Don Fluckinger reports: The good news: While the annual Verizon-Secret Service 2013 Data Breach Investigations Report shows that hacktivist attacks and state-sponsored espionage are on the rise, overall, healthcare organizations aren’t really prime targets for those kinds of attacks. […] The bad news: The industry has a variety of data breach prevention worries. Healthcare providers have a lot of…
Kmart says some confidential customer information stolen during robbery of Little Rock store
Associated Press reports: Kmart says some customer information may have been compromised during an armed robbery of its store in Little Rock last month. Kmart said Monday that it’s notifying pharmacy customers about the March 17 robbery. The company says the gunman took “electronic media” that backed up the pharmacy’s computer system. Kmart says the…
UK: Dumped pupil records and lost ipads among Stoke City Council data breaches
As always, we need to consider whether breaches are actually increasing or if it’s a matter of breach awareness and disclosure increasing. In any event, there are too many avoidable “human error” breaches, it seems: Pupil records found dumped in a country lane and 20 missing ipads are among dozens of Stoke City Council data…
Anonymous Responds to the Japanese National Police Agency
The Japanese police have made a move to ask Internet service providers to block the privacy and anonymity network known as TOR (The onion router). The news has come from a Japanese news site https://mainichi.jp on the 18th but no official statement from the Japan police has been made public at time of publishing. The video statement talks about…