Loni Blandford reports about yet another discovery of medical records from a defunct practice or entity just dumped without shredding: From credit cards applications to patient’s name, addresses and even social security numbers. All that information was just sitting next to a dumpster in a parking lot near Buffalo Drive and Washington Avenue. […] There…
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Personal information of millions of Vietnamese offered for sale
VietNam reportedly has its first case of prosecuting individuals for selling personal information: Three men in HCM City, including Duong Hong Le, Le Minh Trung and Hua Van Tuan, are accused of illegally collecting phone numbers and personal information of millions of people who are clients at securities and real estate trading companies–to sale, earning…
Former Ochsner Medical Center janitor pleads guilty to stealing patient information
Associated Press has a follow-up to a breach previously mentioned on this blog. A Westwego man who worked as a janitor at a New Orleans hospital and his girlfriend have pleaded guilty to charges they used stolen patient information for their personal gain. Federal prosecutors say 50-year-old Clyde Washington was working for Ochsner Medical Center…
Update: Saudi hacker warns he is in possession of one million Israeli credit card numbers
Oded Yaron reports: The Saudi hacker who managed to steal 15 thousand Israeli credit cards revealed another 11 thousand stolen numbers on Thursday, and threatened to release one million total stolen numbers. According to a message left on the Saudi hacking group Group-XP’s message board, the hacker, who goes by the name of 0xOmar, was…
Singapore’s NUS confirms security breach
Liau Yun Qing reports: Hackers have infiltrated the National University of Singapore’s (NUS) backend systems and made away with a trove of information, including staff usernames, domain information and hashed passwords. University has confirmed the incident but noted that the affected data is not confidential. According to a report Thursday on tech Web site Secure…
[CORRECTED AND UPDATED]: “Anonymous Dumps Bank of America client credit card info in #OpBank” – Fiction!
UPDATE: #OpBank was not a real operation – or at the very least, there’s no indication it has been carried out as reported by media coverage elsewhere. Earlier today, @Gardenslayer tweeted: #OpBank is NOT a real op, it’s a screening assignment for new @Gardenslayer writers. #BoA was NOT compromised. Similarly, @DiscordiAnon tweeted: @PeterHScrooby your article…