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UK: Morecambe Bay Hospitals Trust under fire: Crudely-titled email sparks watchdog probe

Posted on December 9, 2011 by Dissent

Helen Perkins reports: A government watchdog has launched an investigation into an incident where midwives emailed an crudely-titled file with confidential patient details to an unknown party. The Health Service Ombudsman plans to probe staff at Furness General Hospital over a breach of data protection. Despite its confidential nature, an email by the University Hospitals…

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AU: Railcorp blunder as personal details offered in rail sale (updated)

Posted on December 9, 2011 by Dissent

Finders, keepers? Can you just auction off lost USB drives left on trains without regard to whether they contain sensitive information? Maureen Shelley reports: A bunch of USB memory sticks, which hold private photos and data, left by passengers on Sydney trains were sold by Railcorp at a lost property auction. Computer security company Sophos,…

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Telstra internal website made public, releasing account details of up to one million customers

Posted on December 9, 2011 by Dissent

Michelle Ainsworth reports: Account details of up to one million Telstra customers have possibly been breached after an internal website was made public. The website listed Telstra customers on bundle plans and included their names, plan types, contact they had had with Telstra customer service and in some instances their account passwords, the Herald Sun…

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Hershey Medical Center employee fired after breach of Joe Paterno's records

Posted on December 8, 2011 by Dissent

Sarah Ganim reports: A Penn State Hershey Medical Center employee has been fired for allegedly accessing Joe Paterno’s billing and registration records without permission, according to a source with direct knowledge of the breach. It happened the day after the 84-year-old was fired from his longtime Penn State head football coaching job, but two days…

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Four Romanian nationals indicted for hacking Subway and 50 other merchants’ POS systems

Posted on December 8, 2011 by Dissent

The U.S. Dept. of Justice has issued a press release about an indictment that may relate to some breaches involving Subway Restaurant previously reported on this blog. The case was filed May 4, but the indictment has just been unsealed. Four Romanian nationals have been charged in federal court for their alleged participation in an…

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UK: Probe launched as confidential files appear on Camden Council’s website

Posted on December 8, 2011 by Dissent

The Town Hall is facing a probe by the country’s data protection watchdog after a New Journal investigation found files containing strictly confidential personal information were freely accessible on Camden Council’s website. We alerted the Town Hall to the dangers of publishing uncensored licensing applications on Monday after opening and downloading dozens of the forms….

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