I’m seeing a rash of reports involving card skimmers at gas stations, most of which I’m not posting to this blog. Here are two such reports as examples, though: Michigan State Police and the Ionia County Sheriff’s Office are investigating reports of fraudulent credit card activity. There have been at least 12 credit card skimmers found at…
Month: September 2015
Harbottle Surgery: NHS accused of data protection breach
Is this a case of good intentions paving the road to a data protection breach? Can the NHS just transfer a patient’s records to another practice without the patient’s consent, even if they mean well? BBC reports: NHS bosses have been accused of breaking data protection law by passing on medical records without consent. Harbottle…
AU: University of New South Wales Facebook page flooded with soft porn in embarrassing hack
7News reports: Graphic images and links to soft-core porn were posted on The University of New South Wales Facebook page early this morning, shortly before it kicked off it’s Open day. One of the posts, which has since been deleted, showed images of pornographic actress Mia Khalifa, while others showed pictures of women’s backsides and…
5 things the FTC should do to improve data security in the wake of Wyndham
Dan Solove and Woody Hartzog have 5 suggestions for how FTC could use its authority to improve data security: Here’s how we think the FTC should use its authority to drive important change: 1. Do more proactive enforcement 2. Take on more data security cases 3. Push companies toward improved authentication – moving beyond mere passwords 4….
Uber ‘shared trip’ data leaked into Google search results
Zack Whitaker reports: Dozens of trips taken using private car service Uber have been cached by Google, making them available to anyone with a simple search term. By site-searching “trip.uber.com” in Google, a list of past trips appear in the search results. These trips are shared by the user from the mobile app, allowing others…
Ca: Reported Privacy Breach Involving Human Rights Commission
VOCM reports: There are reports of another privacy breach, this time involving the Human Rights Commission, a division of the provincial Department of Justice. A man in Central Newfoundland says he received a package by registered mail, but instead of the information he was expecting to receive, he got a package intended for another person….