On August 11, the Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) suspended wireless service. According to a statement posted on their web site the next day, their intent was to address an expected protest following an officer-involved shooting on July 3: Organizers planning to disrupt BART service on August 11, 2011 stated they would use mobile devices…
Author: Dissent
Mibbit reveals blog & test servers compromised
Yesterday, the Mibbit blog posted: At approximately 3pm GMT today unauthorised access was detected to the server which runs our Blog. In response to this we shut it down and began investigating. Later today at around 8pm GMT we shutdown our IRC services after it became clear that several pieces of backed up data had…
Bethesda Forums Hacked; All Passwords Reset
Seen on Capsule Computers: And Lightning Strikes twice. After having their main website hacked back in June [previous coverage on DataBreaches.net can be found here], Bethesda have now sent out a new email to all forum users, informing of a security breach. No guilty parties were mentioned this time around, and as of now it…
HI: Missing Files From Locked Storage Prompt Alert
Catherine Cruz reports: University of Hawaii officials are warning that confidential financial information of close to 2,000 people is unaccounted for. The documents were in three file boxes kept in a secured area on the Diamond Head campus. “It’s scary because someone could be using your credit card and you wouldn’t know,” said Sepe Albert,…
IE: Doctors questioned over security after data breach
Allison Bray reports: Dozens of hospital consultants and doctors are being quizzed by the Data Protection Commissioner over their own security protocols after using an online transcription service that is at the centre of a data security breach scandal. Around 60 consultants and GPs and four hospitals have been sent letters by the commissioner as…
Drive containing info of St. Francis patients lost
Hiran Ratnayake reports: A St. Francis Hospital doctor lost a thumb drive in the spring that contained the unprotected personal health care information of 474 maternity patients. The thumb drive was lost for as long as two weeks and contained the names of the patients and relevant details about their care, St. Francis officials said….