Ben Farmer reports: Members of Parliament have been deliberately targeted by hackers trying to break into online accounts, security officals have said. The cyber attack earlier this year is understood to have focused on unnamed MPs and political party staff, raising suspicions it was politically motivated. Details of the attack were disclosed after intelligence services warned they…
Month: May 2017
Charlotte medical practice worker sold patients’ private info for $10 apiece, feds say
Blake Hanson reports on an incident that was seemingly reported to federal regulators and patients last year, but flew under the media radar for the most part until criminal charges were revealed this week: Federal prosecutors have charged a Charlotte medical practice employee over accusations she sold patient’s private information to an identity thief. Keniona…
UK: GP staff member fined for looking at confidential records
Carl Difford reports: An administrator who worked in a GP’s surgery has been fined after she illegally accessed the confidential medical records of one patient 51 times. Sally Anne Day, 41, of Abergavenny, logged on to a second patient’s records eight times, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), which prosecuted the case said. Day, who worked…
Bell apologizes to customers after data breach hits 1.9 million e-mail addresses
Josh O’Kane reports: BCE Inc.’s Bell Canada has issued an apology to customers after it said nearly 1.9 million customer e-mail addresses and 1,700 names and phone numbers illegally accessed – while an anonymous note posted online threatens that “more will leak” if the telecom company doesn’t co-operate with the group or individual claiming responsibility…
Cn: China cracks down on selling personal info
Global Times reports: The Supreme People’s Procuratorate of China announced several typical cases of infringement of personal information. One of the cases involved several national staff members who take advantage of their positions to illegally obtain – and sell – citizens’ personal information. Between 2014 and 2016, an employee surnamed Han from the Shanghai Municipal…
DocuSign Admits Data Breach That Led to Recent Spam Campaigns
Catalin Cimpanu reports: Today, DocuSign — a provider of e-signature technology — acknowledged a data breach incident following which a third-party managed to gain access to the email addresses of its customers, data that it’s now using in massive spam campaigns. Read more on BleepingComputer.