Dan Oakes reports: The Commonwealth Bank is urgently investigating a potential data breach that may have given its staff access to customers’ sensitive medical information. The issue was discovered around late July as the bank made preparations for the $3.8 billion sale of its insurance arm, CommInsure, to the AIA group. Medical information supplied by…
Month: December 2018
Technic forums breach
Technic forums database breach, as posted tonight on their blog: If you have an account on our forums or wiki, and are using your password somewhere else, change it immediately. You should still be fine, but this is a necessary precaution. Our forums and wiki got compromised by an unknown third-party. On Friday a user…
A popular Q&A website says hackers stole information on 100 million users
Saheli Roy Choudhury reports: Quora, the popular question-and-answer website, said Monday evening that hackers broke into one of its systems and compromised information from approximately 100 million users. CEO Adam D’Angelo said in a blog post the company discovered last week that a malicious third party had gained unauthorized access to one of its systems….
Cancer Treatment Centers of America Notifies Almost 42,000 Patients of Possible Access to Their Protected Health Information
CORRECTION: I don’t know how I did it, but instead of typing 42,000, I kept typing 92,000 when I originally wrote this one up. The number of patients affected was 41,948, as it said at the bottom of the post. My apologies to CTCA. Another phishing incident where an employee’s email account was storing a…
Misconfigured Locksmith Services web servers exposed sensitive information
Darryl Burke reports: On Wed Nov 23rd, we discovered a misconfiguration on the web servers of the company “Locksmith Services” which is a US based national dispatch service for Locksmiths. The misconfiguration on the website dispatchlogin.net exposed the; audio recording of calls, emails, customer contact information, photos of drivers licenses and passports, photos of credit…
UK: Hospital staff investigated for ‘spying’ on Sir Alex Ferguson’s medical records while he was fighting for his life
Benjamin Butterworth reports: At least five medics are being investigated over accusations they illicitly accessed Sir Alex Ferguson’s medical records while he was fighting for his life. Britain’s most successful football manager, who managed Manchester United from 1986 to 2013, received care for a brain haemorrhage at Salford Royal hospital in May. Two doctors, a…