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CA: Peninsula hospital reports medical records theft

Posted on August 1, 2011 by Dissent

Yet another hospital employee apparently walked out with records. Erin Allday reports: A mailroom employee at Mills-Peninsula Medical Center in Burlingame took home medical documents for roughly 1,500 patients over a nearly year-long period, the health care system announced today. Most of the records contained patient names and diagnostic test results, and 15 of the…

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UK: ICO calls for prison sentences for use of stolen data

Posted on August 1, 2011 by Dissent

Warwick Ashford reports: The UK should introduce prison sentences for using stolen personal data, says Information Commissioner Christopher Graham. He is calling for an effective deterrent to the “routine trashing of individuals’ rights” under the Data Protection Act, according to according to Bloomberg. The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) proposed a two-year prison term in 2006 after investigating the sale of stolen…

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UK: Repeated failure to protect privacy of records results in an undertaking for Kirklees Metropolitan Council

Posted on August 1, 2011 by Dissent

When I saw that the Information Commissioner’s Office had required Kirklees Metropolitan Council to sign an undertaking following a breach, the name sounded familiar. But it turns out that it was not the stolen computer breach mentioned on DataBreaches.net two weeks ago, but an earlier breach that occurred in July 2010. From the undertaking: The…

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AU: Credit card details hacked at Horsham business

Posted on July 31, 2011 by Dissent

Police at Horsham, in the state’s west, say the computer system of a Horsham business has been hacked and people’s credit card details stolen. For legal reasons, police are not identifying which business had its computer remotely accessed. There have now been 60 complaints of unauthorised use of cards from the Wimmera Mallee, but police…

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#AntiSec/Anonymous claims to have compromised 77 law enforcement-related web sites and acquired personal information of 7,000 officers

Posted on July 31, 2011 by Dissent

The Hacker News reports that #AntiSec has attacked 77 law enforcement-related web sites.  According to a statement posted yesterday on Pastebin by AnonymousIRC: Time for us to conduct a raid of our own. In retaliation to the unjust persecution of dozens of suspected Anonymous “members”, we attacked over 70 US law enforcement institutions defacing their websites and…

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A costly reminder that encrypting a laptop doesn’t help if you don’t shut down the laptop

Posted on July 31, 2011 by Dissent

Add Tufts University to the list of educational institutions reporting a breach this year. On July 7, the university notified the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office that a laptop used by a professor conducting research at Massachusetts General Hospital also contained a file with information on applicants to Tufts’ Graduate School of Arts and Science…

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