Catalin Cimpanu writes: A hacker known as Databoss has stolen the databases of BitTorrent clients qTorrent and Deluge, and is offering access to all the data via his website. Deluge and qTorrent are desktop clients for the BitTorrent protocol, just like uTorrent and Vuze. According to a post on the Reality Forum, a hacker that goes…
Month: December 2015
Florida Agency For Healthcare Administration records with PHI sent to landfill by mistake
From Florida’s Agency for Health Care Administration, Dec. 21: HIPAA Notice of Improper Disposal of Protected Health Information. The Agency for Health Care Administration has determined that certain inspection records which may contain protected health information were improperly disposed of on November 12, 2015. On November 13, 2015, the Agency discovered that old inspection records of…
UK: Croydon Health Services NHS Trust gets wrist slapped by ICO over breach
From the Information Commissioner’s Office: An undertaking to comply with the seventh data protection principle has been signed by Croydon Health Services NHS Trust. This follows an incident where correspondence giving the outcome of a patient complaint had been misaddressed resulting in sensitive personal data being sent to an unintended recipient. On investigation the ICO…
Canadian data breaches in 2015: Big firms weren’t the only targets
Howard Solomon reports: Of all the publicly-disclosed data or privacy breaches in this country in 2015, one topped them all by a wide margin: Ashley Madison. With over 30 million records exposed from the dating site, a $578 million class action suit filed against parent Avid Life Media, the CEO resigning after his emails were…
New Jersey Psychology Practice Revealed Patients’ Mental Disorders in Debt Lawsuits
by Charles Ornstein ProPublica, Dec. 23, 2015, 5 a.m. This story was co-published with The New York Times. When a New Jersey lawyer named Philip received legal papers last year informing him that his former psychologist’s practice was suing him over an unpaid bill, he was initially upset they could not work out a payment…
[Hello Kitty Update] Security Advisory: Corrected a vulnerability involving personal information of SanrioTown.com members
As noted in an update to my first post, Salted Hash learned that this incident potentially impacted over 186,000 children under the age of 18. Here is Sanrio’s statement from their SanrioTown web site: Sanrio Digital notifies that personal information belonging to members of the consumer website SanrioTown.com was publicly accessible owing to a security vulnerability….