A firm of loss adjusters has been fined £50,000 for unlawfully disclosing personal data which had been obtained illegally by senior employees and rogue private investigators. A director and a senior member of staff at Kent-based Woodgate and Clark Ltd have also been sentenced to record financial penalties, along with the private investigators involved. The…
Month: January 2018
Former Island Health nurse suspended over privacy breach
Jason Proctor reports: B.C.’s college of registered nurses has handed a 30-day suspension to a nurse who accessed the private medical records of 74 Vancouver Island Health Authority patients without permission. The health authority fired Jennifer Goodman after the breach came to light. Although the incidents occurred during 2013 and 2014, the nurse’s college only…
Creditseva hacked, personal and sensitive data accessed
CyberWarNews.info has the exclusive on this one: Creditseva has been in the headlines before for the wrong reasons after security researcher Chris Vickery discovered that they had failed to secure a s3 instance which left tens of thousands personal details exposed. Moving on months later and it has come to my attention that Creditseva has now…
PH: NPC wants private, public sectors to submit data security incident reports
Roy Stephen C. Canivel reports: The National Privacy Commission (NPC) wants companies and government agencies to submit a report on security incidents that have affected the personal data of their consumers, even if these incidents were unsuccessful. In a statement, the NPC said it is requiring “personal information controllers” (PICs) in both the public and…
Creditseva hacked, personal and sensitive data accessed
Creditseva has been in the headlines before for the wrong reasons after security researcher Chris Vickery discovered that they had failed to secure a s3 instance which left tens of thousands personal details exposed. Moving on months later and it has come to my attention that Creditseva has now come under attack by various hackers,…
Florida colleges receive extortion demands to avert attacks on campuses (UPDATED)
Stephanie Brown reports: An extortion email apparently sent to several colleges and universities demands payment in Bitcoin, threatening to commit an attack against campus students and faculty. We first told you Wednesday that the University of North Florida confirmed they had received an emailed extortion threat. The UNF Crime Alert said law enforcement believed the…