Kyodo News reports: Hokkaido University said Wednesday that personal data of more than 110,000 students and graduates may have been leaked due to unauthorized access of its computer systems by unknown parties. The university believes a server at its career placement service center is likely to have been unlawfully accessed. The server contains personal data,…
Month: January 2016
NY: St. Luke’s Cornwall Hospital notifies patients after thumb drive with limited PHI is stolen
In reading the following statement from the hospital, keep in mind that the hospital’s home page says the incident involves the “possible disclosure” of “a limited number” of patients’ personal information. Their report to HHS of December 30th indicates that 29,156 patients were impacted. That’s some “limited number.” On October 31, 2015, an individual entered a restricted area of St….
Teen Who Hacked CIA Email Is Back to Prank US Spy Chief
Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai reports: One of the “teenage hackers” who broke into the CIA director’s AOL email account last year hasn’t given up targeting government intelligence officials. His latest victim is the Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, Motherboard has learned. A group of hackers calling themselves “Crackas With Attitude” or CWA made headlines in October, hacking into…
Trend Micro Flaw Would Have Allowed Hackers To Steal Your Passwords
Adnan Farooqui reports: It’s ironic when programs that are meant to protect you from attackers actually open up doors from them. One of Google’s information security engineers discovered a critical flaw in Trend Micro antivirus which would not only have allowed attackers to execute code remotely but would have even let them steal all of…
Dell denies any breach, but scammers are in possession of your service tag numbers?
“A number of Dell customers claim to have been contacted by scammers who had access to specific customer information that should have only been available to Dell. The company says it hasn’t been hacked but won’t offer an explanation for the seemingly stolen data.” Well, that doesn’t sound good. Read Bill Snyder’s report on CIO. It…
AU: Google search puts NSW Medical Council on the wrong side of privacy laws
Paris Cowan reports: A NSW tribunal has ruled that the state’s Medical Council breached privacy laws when it published what it thought was a redacted PDF document on its website, but in doing so revealed the hidden identities of a doctor and her son to Google’s web crawling bot. In April, the NSW Civil and…