Amy Kellogg reports: A convicted Belarussian cybercriminal who was part of the biggest data theft in U.S. history said it’s much easier to hack into government computers than it is to break into big banks and credit card company servers. Sergey Pavlovich, 34, also boasted that Russia had some of the best hackers in the…
Month: August 2017
Sg: Ex-financial adviser fined for data breach
K.C. Vijayan reports: A former financial consultant was fined $1,000 for breaching data protection laws by disposing of clients’ insurance policy-related documents in a rubbish bin in a residential estate. The Commissioner for Data Protection had launched a probe after receiving a complaint on Oct 10 last year that Prudential folders were recovered from a…
CA: Breach of RNC officers’ information in Sunshine List accidental, says privacy commissioner
CBC News reports: The Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner (OIPC) has concluded that a privacy breach that led to the salary and employee ID information of some Royal Newfoundland Constabulary officers being published online earlier this year was accidental. The information was published as part of the 2016 Sunshine list, which listed people who…
UK: Hospital staff sacked for prying on patients’ medical records in Suffolk and Colchester hospitals
Tom Bristow reports: Hospital staff have been dismissed and suspended for looking up patients’ confidential medical information. They are among hundreds of data protection breaches reported by the NHS in Suffolk and North Essex in the last two years. No harm was done in the majority of cases but the most common serious breaches involved…
Eighth Circuit asks for additional briefing in Target data breach class action settlement
Jessica Karmasek reports: A $10 million class action settlement stemming from a 2013 Target data breach — described as “unfair” by some — is again being looked at by a federal appeals court. On Tuesday, the Competitive Enterprise Institute’s Center for Class Action Fairness filed additional briefing in the case, as requested by the U.S….
TriPoint Medical Center: Lake Health investigating missing obstetrics records
Tawana Roberts reports: The obstetrics department at Lake Health’s TriPoint Medical Center recently suffered a breach of about 750 OB patients’ protected health information. According to a Lake Health news release, no Social Security numbers or patient financial information was compromised. In June a log book maintained with limited but protected patient health information for…