The Clinical Director of the National Maternity Hospital, Holles Street, has strongly critcised the ‘leaking’ of details of a termination at the hospital which was reported to be the first to be carried out under the Protection of Life During Pregnancy Act. Dr Peter Boylan expressed outrage at the leak, which he said could have…
Month: August 2013
UK: Islington Council hit with monetary penalty after 2,375 residents' personal details published online
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has served Islington Council with a monetary penalty of £70,000 after personal details of over 2,300 residents were released online. The information was inadvertently released in response to a freedom of information request, and revealed sensitive personal information relating to residents’ housing needs, including details of whether they had a history of…
Pizza Hut Spain and Malta Data Analyst
Analyst report for pizza hut spain and malta attack by Turkish Ajan hacker Group Package contents; Folder name: pizzahut.mt: two xls files file name: pizzahut_com.mt_users.xls size: 1.03MB file contents: mailing list users first, last names, email addresses. Dates back to 2007 to aug 2012, total 5152 file name: user.xls size: 195kb file contents: Client…
Fast food Giant Pizza hut Spain and Malta Hacked, Data leaked, Site Redirected
Today hackers from known hacker collective Turkish Ajan hacker group have posted data from the fast food giant Pizza hut. The leak was announced from the official Turkish Ajan hackers twitter account earlier in the day and as normal the data was posted to speedy share but has since been removed. The hackers have also…
MS: UMC accidentally leaks students’ personal information
Seriously, these attachment errors are pretty inexcusable, aren’t they? Brian Eason reports: The University of Mississippi Medical Center mistakenly gave out social security numbers, grade point averages and other personal information for most of its student body this week, violating state and federal privacy laws. UMC’s accounting department on Wednesday attached the private data to…
Lessons learned from earlier breaches left Beth Israel Deaconess better prepared to protect patient privacy after the Boston bombings
A data breach that cost Beth Deaconess Medical Center in Boston over $500,000 in costs seems to have paid off when the hospital found itself with high-profile patients whose privacy needed protection: Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and the Boston bombing victims. CIO John Halamka explains how Deloitte’s recommendations to them after a laptop theft and another data leak left…