Martin Beckford reports: At least 216 letters have been posted with security codes for door entry and key safe boxes printed on the front of the envelopes. The confidential information is used by carers and nurses to gain entry to immobile patients’ homes. But it was wrongly added to records on the Personal Demographic Service, part…
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IG: Contractor Improperly Accessed VA IT
Eric Chabrow reports: The Department of Veterans Affairs’ inspector general substantiated allegations left on a departmental hotline last summer that IT contractors without appropriate security clearances improperly gained access to the VA’s electronic health record system. Belinda Finn, assistant inspector general for audits and evaluations, wrote in an audit dated July 27, that contractor personnel improperly shared user accounts…
IE: Tallaght Hospital admits data breach
Tallaght Hospital in Dublin has now admitted that patient medical records have been the subject of unauthorised access and disclosure. In a letter to hospital consultants on outsourcing the transcription of patient medical reports and letters for GPs, the hospital has also conceded that while it was the policy not to identify patients, this policy…
Korean national ID numbers spring up all over Chinese Web
Robert Lee reports: The number of leaked Korean social security numbers available online is likely to skyrocket as a massive social network hacking attack left more than three quarters of the nation exposed. A quick search using the keywords, “Korean social security numbers,” on Baidu, a Chinese Internet search engine, showed about 1.39 million results….
TN: Gallatin Credit Card Fraud Linked To Computer Hacking
Here we go again – law enforcement decides that they can withhold information from consumers to protect a business. The Secret Service said more than 100 cases of credit card fraud reported in Gallatin was the work of a criminal enterprise that hacked into a local business computer. They are not releasing the name…
Suspected Anonymous hacker ‘had 750,000 passwords’, court hears
Graham Cluley writes: A London court heard this morning how 18-year-old Jake Davis allegedly had the login passwords of 750,000 people on his computer when he was arrested in the Shetland Islands last week. Davis is suspected by the authorities of being “Topiary”, the public face of the Anonymous and LulzSec hacktivist groups. According to…