Elyse Skura reports: A lack of leadership at the Qikiqtani General Hospital may be putting patients’ personal information at risk, says Nunavut’s Information and Privacy Commissioner. A new privacy audit at the territory’s only hospital revealed that no one is in charge of ensuring staff follow privacy regulations, there’s no standard system to track who is…
Month: December 2016
ThyssenKrupp secrets stolen in ‘massive’ cyber attack
Eric Auchard and Tom Käckenhoff report: Technical trade secrets were stolen from the steel production and manufacturing plant design divisions of ThyssenKrupp AG (TKAG.DE) in cyber attacks earlier this year, the German company said on Thursday. “ThyssenKrupp has become the target of a massive cyber attack,” the industrial conglomerate said in a statement. In breaches discovered by the…
Henry County residents’ information is exposed in hacking
The Toledo Blade reports: Henry County was targeted by a “ransomware” attack that may have exposed more than 17,000 county voters’ personal information, Henry County Commission President Glenn Miller said Tuesday. The county last week sent a letter to 17,841 voters to notify them of the computer hacking incident that occurred Oct. 31. County officials…
Bahamian man gets five years in U.S. prison for hacking celebrities
Nate Raymond reports: A Bahamian man was sentenced to five years in U.S. prison on Tuesday for hacking into celebrities’ email accounts to steal unreleased film and television scripts, personal information and sexually explicit videos in order to sell them. Alonzo Knowles, who maintained a list of 130 celebrities’ emails and phone numbers, was sentenced…
University of Wisconsin-Madison Law School breach disclosed
Karen Herzog reports: A database within the University of Wisconsin-Madison Law School that contained Social Security numbers and name pairs corresponding with 1,213 Law School applicants for 2005-’06 was hacked last month, the university announced Tuesday. The university became aware Nov. 3 that the database had been breached, and sent notices to those affected Dec. 6, offering…
Online mall Interpark fined 4.5 bln won ($3.8 million) over data leak
Yonhap News reports: South Korea’s telecommunications watchdog said Tuesday that it has decided to impose a fine of 4.5 billion won (US$3.8 million) on major online shopping mall Interpark Corp. for its failure to protect information of customers in a hacking attack blamed on North Korea. The Korea Communications Commission made the decision at its…