C. Custer writes that the recent release of so many old (and large!) Chinese databases might be politically motivated as a challenge to China’s real-name registration policy: The data released on the internet last week was already widely available in hacking circles, according to Wan Tao, the founder of a popular hacking online community. Wan…
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Pharmacy customers complain of privacy violations, delays
Jim Doyle reports: Walgreens’ recent acquisition and immediate closure of three independent community pharmacies in the St. Louis area has raised questions about the privacy of customers’ prescription records. Some former customers of the three sold pharmacies — the Williams Pharmacy in University City, the Clarkson Square Pharmacy in Chesterfield and Prescription Plus in the…
UK: Patient details leaked at Midlands hospitals
Patients’ personal details have been leaked dozens of times at hospitals in the Black Country and Staffordshire – including a computer being hacked into and a foster mother’s address being handed to the child’s parent – it was revealed today. There have been 38 data breaches across the region’s NHS hospitals trusts in the past…
Attacks on Chinese sites continue: Now it’s 40 million users of Tianya who get the bad news (updated)
Zheng Yi reports: The registration details of about 40 million users of tianya.cn, a big social networking site, were found to have been leaked on Sunday, following last Thursday’s discovery that user information had been leaked from several other websites. According to Web users, tianya.cn was hacked and some 40 million users’ names and passwords…
What was Stratfor’s obligation to secure data and what might this breach cost them?
I thought it might be useful to post part of Texas law that may apply to Stratfor’s duty to protect subscriber data: Sec. 521.002. DEFINITIONS. (a) In this chapter: (1) “Personal identifying information” means information that alone or in conjunction with other information identifies an individual, including an individual’s: (A) name, social security number, date…
Stratfor updates those affected: will be offering free credit monitoring services and will be boosting security
The following was provided to DataBreaches.net by one of the recipients: From: “STRATFOR” Date: December 25, 2011 3:49:06 PM MST To: [redacted] Subject: Update on Security Issues Reply-To: “STRATFOR” View on Mobile Phone | Read the online version. Dear Stratfor Member, On December 24th an unauthorized party disclosed personally identifiable information and related credit card…