From the Winnipeg Health Region, this press statement: Proactive audit identifies patient information accessed inappropriately A proactive audit by the Winnipeg Regional Health Authority (WRHA) has identified the personal health information of at least 56 individuals was inappropriately accessed by an employee who at the time was working within the Region. Following an investigation of…
Month: March 2015
As threatened, Rex Mundi dumps Labio patients’ diagnostic test results
As they had threatened to do if Labio did not pay them €20,000, the hacker collective known as Rex Mundi has started dumping/disclosing identifiable patient data. The dump was announced on Twitter by the @RexMundi2015 account. DataBreaches.net confirmed that the records appear to be the results of lab tests performed on patients whose names, dates…
AU: Ivanhoe Grammar under fire for exposing former students in email about alleged sex offenses
Ashley Argoon and Kathryn Powley report: Ivanhoe Grammar School has come under further fire after identifying alumni in an email about alleged historic sex offences against a student. In a potential breach of privacy, the posh school revealed the private email addresses of 1000 past students to whom it wrote offering counselling services after veteran…
UK: Parole Board for England and Wales signs undertaking
From the Information Commissioner’s Office: An Undertaking to comply with the seventh data protection principle has been signed by The Parole Board after the potential loss of a prisoner’s parole dossier. Whilst there is a possibility that the dossier may have been securely destroyed in this case we do not consider that the Parole Board…
OR: Advantage Dental reports data breach affecting 151,000
Tara Bannow reports: Advantage Dental, a Redmond-based provider that serves low-income patients at more than 30 clinics in Oregon, announced Monday an intruder had breached its internal membership database in late February and accessed information on more than 151,000 patients. Compromised data included names, Social Security numbers, birthdates, phone numbers and home addresses, but not…
13 acquitted in case of Turkish hacker group Redhack
Today’s Zaman reports: A total of 13 suspects accused of acting with the Turkish hacker group redhack were acquitted by an Ankara court on Monday. Murat Yılmaz, the head of the Ankara branch of the Contemporary Lawyers Association said while speaking to the media on the ruling, “The court ruling proved wrong the claim that…