The Commentator reports: The National Health Service (NHS) has lost almost 10,000 patient records in the last year, according to new research from leading tech think tank Parliament Street. The findings are disclosed in a new report entitled ‘NHS Data Security: Protecting Patient Records’ examines the amount of patient records that have been misplaced from…
Month: August 2018
Twitch Glitch Exposed Some Users’ Private Messages
Catalin Cimpanu reports: Twitch is warning users of a bug in one of its recently retired features that may have exposed some of their messages to other users. “On May 5, 2018, Twitch removed a legacy feature called Messages and provided users the ability to download an archive of past messages,” the game streaming company…
China’s biggest ever bitcoin hacking case sees three held over theft of US$87 million in cryptocurrency
Alice Yan reports: Three men have been detained on suspicion of hacking into computers and stealing about 600 million yuan (US$87 million) worth of virtual currency, police in northwest China said. The case is the highest value cryptocurrency criminal investigation in China so far, officers in Xian told Huashang News on Saturday. The police started…
LA: Bossier City shuts downs online water bill payment system over possible data breach
Nikki Henderson reports: Some Bossier City water customers may have had their information compromised due to a possible breach of an online billing payment system. The City of Bossier maintains a system that allows customers to pay their water bills online using a credit/debit card. In the past few business days, a number of water…
Gujarat Aadhaar centre employees quizzed in data breach case
The Times of India reports: The Delhi police have recorded statements of employees of an Aadhaar centre, which is running from the Surat Collector’s office in Gujarat, in connection with the alleged Aadhaar data breach case, officials said on Thursday. Surat’s resident additional collector S D Vasava said that a Delhi police team visited the…
ME: Possible computer data breach at EMCC could affect thousands of students, staff
WAGM reports: Eastern Maine Community College in Bangor is dealing with a possible data security breach that could impact thousands of students and staff up to 20 years ago. School officials are notifying 42,000 current and former students, as well as employees, that certain computers on campus were recently infected with malware and may have…