Michael Mui reports: BC Hydro is asking its online credit-card customers to check their bills after a security breach was detected last week. Corporation spokeswoman Jennifer Young said the breach — which involved credit card information not being properly encrypted — has been corrected, but urges those who paid online with a credit card in…
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Dutch employment agency applicant data allegedly leaked following extortion attempt
@quentynblog kindly pointed me to what appears to be yet another extortion attempt that resulted in a data leak when the breached entity wouldn’t pay: From the hackers’ post: Dear friends (and enemies), Last week, we hacked into the Web server of Accord.nl, a Dutch temporary employment company, downloading thousands of job applicant records. We…
CA: AB 439 Would Weaken Medical Privacy Law
Richard Holober reports: California lawmakers are poised to weaken a patient privacy law despite its overwhelming voter support. AB 439 (Skinner) is before the Senate Judiciary Committee for a vote on Tuesday July 3. The bill would create loopholes in the Confidentiality of Medical Information Act (CMIA), placing patients at risk of repeated unauthorized release…
Stratfor to settle class action suit over hack
Basil Katz reports: The global security analysis company Strategic Forecasting Inc will settle a class action lawsuit brought by one of its customers over a crippling attack by hackers who stole data of clients including Henry Kissinger, court documents show. U.S. District Judge Denis Hurley in Central Islip on New York’s Long Island earlier this…
San Jose State University officials deny hacker’s data theft claims
Robert Salonga reports: San Jose State University officials are denying a computer hacker’s claims he stole a wealth of sensitive personal data from its largest student-run campus enterprise. Monday, a hacker going by “S1ngularity” announced via Twitter that he infiltrated a server for the Associated Students of SJSU, a student-run nonprofit that oversees a host…
University of Florida notifies former law students about privacy breach
This sounds very much like the incident University of North Florida reported last month, but it’s a new/separate announcement from the University of Florida: University of Florida officials are notifying 220 former law school students and applicants who had sought a roommate online in the early 2000s through the Levin College of Law that their Social Security…