In reading news yesterday morning, I stumbled across a question posted on StackExchange: I found my user details on already old, leaked account information list I came across an old (>3 years) accounts information list which has been leaked to the web. The list included thousands (>10.000) of account details from a service or services. Apparently…
Month: July 2015
IM: No action to be taken following email data leak
This is a follow-up to a breach reported in May in the Isle of Man. EnergyFM reports: No action will be taken against the Income Tax Division despite an email it sent out about Twitter breaching data protection rules. On May 20th the division sent out 10 sets of e-mails to 500 recipients advertising its…
Ottawa scrambles to solve secret document breach by Anonymous
Alex Boutilier reports: Canadian government and law enforcement officials are scrambling to figure out how Anonymous got their hands on what the hacker collective calls cabinet-level secrets. On Monday, individuals associated with (sic) released to the media the first in what they call a series of sensitive government documents. They will continue to release documents until…
Federal Court certifies privacy class action by Medical Marijuana patients against Health Canada
HALIFAX, July 28, 2015 /CNW/ – The Federal Court of Canada has certified a class action commenced on behalf of more than 40,000 medical marijuana licensees alleging that Health Canada violated their privacy. In November 2013, Health Canada sent notices to over 40,000 participants of the Marihuana Medical Access Program (MMAP) to advise of changes to regulations governing the use…
Moonpig message to customers about breach
And this, kids, is what happens when you re-use login credentials across sites. Posted on Moonpig’s site on July 26th: Late on Friday, 24 July, we became aware of a security issue whereby a number of Moonpig customer email addresses, account balance and passwords had been illegally published. As a precautionary measure, we promptly closed our…
Medical Informatics Engineering Breach Highlights Breach Notice, Privacy, And Cloud-Storage Issues
George Jenkins’ wife received a breach notification letter from Medical Informatics Engineering about their breach. And when George started investigating to find out why and how they happened to have his wife’s information, he was not happy with what he found out. Read the results of his digging and his thoughts on I’ve Been Mugged.