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Globe and Mail online classroom hacked – again and again? Wake up, Globe and Mail!

Posted on November 28, 2011 by Dissent

Well, I posted this to DataLossDB.org the other day, but seem to have forgotten to have posted it here. Globe and Mail, the Canadian newspaper, had their online classroom site hacked (http://globeclassroom.ca). The hack was disclosed on Pastebin on November 22, at which time I created an entry for it on DLDB. I then tried…

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In: Your personal details end up with raddiwalas

Posted on November 28, 2011 by Dissent

Shashank Rao reports: Your phone company knows where you live, your PAN, your employer and even your monthly salary. But wouldn’t you be shocked to find that the details that you provide so trustingly will find its way to a food stall vendor and, from him, to anyone who cares to stop for a bite?…

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73,000 Finnish web users’ details hacked

Posted on November 28, 2011 by Dissent

The login details of 73,000 users of a popular Finnish family-oriented discussion forum were stolen and posted online in the latest in a series of widespread hacking attacks, police said today. “We are aware of this incident and are investigating it as part of our wider investigation into the hacking attacks,” police investigator Timo Piiroinen…

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UK: Thousands of health records lost in council security blunder

Posted on November 28, 2011 by Dissent

Since Big Brother Watch came out with a report on breaches disclosed in freedom of information requests, there have been a number of stories about individual councils. This is just one of them. Adam Courtney reports: A security breach saw Hammersmith and Fulham Council lose the confidential health records of 3,500 people which were being…

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Pakistani cosmetic surgery and hair transplant center's client database hacked and dumped (updated)

Posted on November 28, 2011 by Dissent

Over on DataBreaches.net, I’ve struggled to keep up with all the hacks that dump PII on the Internet.  But there’s one from yesterday that involves patient data that should be mentioned here.  A hack of vaguscosmetics.net (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3) reveals 1,973  2,555 patients’ information.  Here are the data fields from the dumped database:…

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UK: ICO levies two monetary fines to councils for e-mail gaffes that exposed sensitive information

Posted on November 28, 2011 by Dissent

The The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has served monetary penalties to North Somerset Council and Worcestershire County Council after staff at both authorities sent highly sensitive personal information to the wrong recipients. The news comes as the Information Commissioner is pressing for stronger powers to audit data protection compliance across local government and the NHS….

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