I couldn’t fall asleep last night. It’s not often that a data breach worries me, but what I read online had concerned me. According to a hacker calling himself @PabloEscobarSec, he had hacked the British Pregnancy Advisory Service (BPAS), and intended to leak the names of all of the women who had used the service….
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Scottish charity signs ICO undertaking following personal data theft
A Scottish charity – based in Glasgow – breached the Data Protection Act after two unencrypted memory sticks and papers containing the personal details of up to 101 individuals were stolen from an employee’s home. The information included peoples’ names, addresses and dates of birth, as well as a limited amount of data relating to…
Everything’s leaking everywhere: McGill shuts down website that revealed donor records
Karen Seidman reports: McGill University has succeeded – for now – in shutting down a website that had exposed confidential and personal information about McGill donors, embarrassing the university and raising questions about the security of private information. The information included how much donors had given in the past and how much they were being…
Ore. nurse aide posted Facebook photos of patients
Jail time for a privacy of invasion is not that common, so I thought I’d post this one from Oregon: An Oregon nursing assistant spent eight days in jail after a jury found her guilty of taking disturbing photos of elderly or disabled patients and posting them to her Facebook wall. A jury convicted Nai…
Twitter yanks @LindenLeaks account, but some damage was already done
Russell Korando reports on a university data breach that demonstrates why universities need to nail down security and access to education records: LindenLeaks is no longer posting information about Lindenwood University or its students on Twitter. Sometime early Wednesday, the Twitter account stopped publishing. Lindenwood officials, St. Charles police and the St. Charles County Cyber…
Ca: UBC computer with sensitive data recovered
Encryption worked, but what was the laptop doing in an unattended vehicle anyway? CBC News reports: The University of B.C. is reviewing its security procedures after the theft of a laptop containing personal information on thousands of students and faculty members. RCMP retrieved the computer last month, 10 days after it was stolen from a…