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(Update) Yellowstone County website hack did expose personal information

Posted on July 20, 2011 by Dissent

The Laurel Outlook reports: Yellowstone County officials confirmed Tuesday that a security breach of the county website may have exposed account information. According to release issued Tuesday by the Yellowstone County Commission, investigators have discovered that the motor vehicle electronic payment account information may have been exposed when a hacker penetrated the system on July…

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WA: Social Security Numbers of 20,000 Swedish Med. Ctr. employees exposed on the web for 9 weeks

Posted on July 20, 2011 by Dissent

Carol M. Ostrom reports: Swedish Medical Center is alerting nearly 20,000 current and former employees that their personal information — including Social Security numbers — was accidentally made accessible on the Internet for a nine-week period. Read more on Seattle Times. A notice to employees, on an internal page of the medical center’s web site reads: July 20,…

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(Follow-up) Doctor named and blamed for patient files found in Regina dumpster; Dickson recommends prosecution

Posted on July 20, 2011 by Dissent

The follow-up on a case of improper records protection/disposal originally uncovered in March, from the Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Saskatchewan: Saskatchewan’s Information and Privacy Commissioner, Gary Dickson, has issued his Investigation Report H-2011-001 dealing with 180,169 pieces of patient personal health information (PHI) found in a recycling bin in Regina on…

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Russia Amends Federal Data Protection Law; Privacy Enforcement on the Rise

Posted on July 20, 2011 by Dissent

Boris Segalis writes: Last week, the upper house of Russia’s federal legislature approved amendments to the country’s federal data protection law. The amendments impose detailed information security requirements on businesses that process personal data and revise some of the statute’s data subject consent provisions.The amended law will come into force when it is published in the…

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Yet Another Bank Sued By A Small Business For Fraudulent Hacker Transfers

Posted on July 20, 2011 by Dissent

Ericka Chickowski reports: A new court case brought to bear against Professional Business Bank by Village View Escrow Inc. continued the battle waged over who’s to blame for hacking attacks that leave small business accounts drained following online password theft. Filed in late June in the California Superior Court in Los Angeles, the case is…

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(follow-up) University of York breached Data Protection Act – ICO

Posted on July 20, 2011 by Dissent

Back in March, the York University student paper Nouse revealed a breach involving the university’s web site: On a student enquiry screening function enabled on the website, and open to the general public, the private details of any registered student were made freely accessible. This included all their personal details such as mobile numbers, home…

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