First the statement from Indiana University Health Arnett Hospital from December 31: IU Health Arnett is committed to maintaining the privacy and security of personal information provided to us. Regrettably, this notice concerns an incident involving some of that information. On November 20, 2015, we learned that an unencrypted portable storage device was missing from…
Month: January 2016
Hacked OPM won’t cough up documents on mega-breach – claim
Shaun Nichols reports: The US Office of Personnel Management (OPM) – which handles sensitive files on millions of government workers and was thoroughly ransacked by hackers – is withholding thousands of documents from Congress, which is probing the cyber-attack. This is according to members of the House Committee on Oversight, who took OPM to task…
Ex-Cardinals Scouting Director to Plead Guilty to Hacking Houston Astros: Sources (UPDATED)
Brian Costa and Devlin Barrett are reporting that according to sources, Chris Correa, the former scouting director for the St. Louis Cardinals, is scheduled to plead guilty today in connection with an unauthorized breach of the Houston Astros computer network. Read more on WSJ. Update: The sources were right – he did plead guilty to five counts, as The…
BC: 150 Burnaby school district staff email accounts hijacked
Cornelia Naylor reports: As many as 150 Burnaby school district staff email accounts were hijacked by scammers in November and December, according to district secretary-treasurer Greg Frank, wreaking havoc with the district’s online communication with the outside world. Frank said the staff email account holders fell prey to phishing scammers, who tricked them into revealing…
Dutch Law Includes General Data Breach Notification Obligation and Larger Fines for Violations of the Data Protection Act
Hunton & Williams write: On January 1, 2016, a Dutch law became effective that (1) includes a general obligation for data controllers to notify the Data Protection Authority (“DPA”) of data security breaches, and (2) authorizes the DPA to impose direct fines for violations of the Data Protection Act. Read more on Hunton & Williams Privacy & Information…
CAT Results 2015 Leaked At iimcat.ac.in – Hackers Released Merit Cutoff
Michael Jackson reports: The Indian Institute of Management – Ahmedabad (IIM-A) conducted the CAT Exam 2015 last year very successfully on 29th November 2015 and according to the latest news received, some hackers have hacked the official website of IIM-A and released the result of 2015 CAT exams of about 2,00,000 students. Every year, lakhs…