A Korean who hacked into a communication company’s database and downloaded data of its 40,000 customers is currently awaiting deportation to Seoul, the Bureau of Immigration said. Shin Un-sun, 37, has been apprehended last October 5 in a popular shopping center in San Juan City by the Philippine National Police Criminal Investigation and Detection Group…
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El Reg in SHOCK email address BLUNDER
Say it ain’t so, Joe! The Register has disclosed their own data breach – an e-mail gaffe: Between 8:58 and 10:20 this morning we sent an email to 3,521 of you that contained the names and email addresses of 46,524 of our readers. Obviously, this was an error. The two-stage send process that is the…
AU: Super IT blunder risked $23m contract
Asher Moses reports that the Pillar Administration coding that left First State Super clients’ account information viewable online by simple url manipulation also affected three other superannuation funds and the federal government is delaying a contact it had with Pillar until its security is assured: The federal government has been in daily contact with the…
PA: Ambulance records dumped
Tom Ragan reports: Boxes and file folders containing hundreds of sheets with personal information of employees and former patients of the Hazleton Community Ambulance Association were tossed in a city dumpster at the South Side Fire Station on Saturday. […] Several boxes and folders contained trip sheets for ambulance calls, including information on each patient….
Five months after its vendor is notified of data loss, Concordia Plan Services notifies those affected
The recent TRICARE/SAIC breach involved the theft of tapes that were en route to being converted/encrypted. Here’s another case where older-formatted files sent out for conversion have been involved in data loss, although in this case, the data were not stolen from an employee’s car but were lost by a delivery service. And while the…
Mills-Peninsula Medical Center employee who took records home to be charged with embezzlement and forgery
An update on the Mills-Peninsula Medical Center breach reported in August. The incident was subsequently reported to HHS by Mills-Peninsula Health Services as affecting 1,438 patients. Today, Michelle Durand reports: A former hospital mailroom employee who took home and kept approximately 1,500 patient records will appear in court Monday on charges of embezzlement and forgery….