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Author: Dissent

MI: Laptop missing from Hurley Medical Center contained patient data

Posted on July 7, 2011 by Dissent

The other day they were claiming that there was no personal data involved, so I didn’t even mention the incident on my blogs.  What a difference a day makes. Matt Franklin reports: Personal information of almost 2,000 Hurley Medical Center patients may be in the wrong hands this afternoon because the hospital says it is…

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Washington Post reports breach of job seeker data (updated)

Posted on July 7, 2011 by Dissent

Elinor Mills reports: About 1.27 million user IDs and email addresses belonging to people looking for employment on The Washington Post jobs website were affected by a data breach in June, the newspaper has said. “We discovered that an unauthorised third party attacked our Jobs website and was able to obtain access to certain user…

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AL: Patient data stolen from Troy Regional Medical Center used in tax refund fraud scheme

Posted on July 6, 2011 by Dissent

A press release dated July 6 – admirably prominently posted from the medical center’s home page – says: TROY, Ala. (July 6, 2011) – Troy Regional Medical Center (TRMC) has notified certain patients of a data theft incident involving unauthorized access and removal of some of their personal information. TRMC is conducting a comprehensive investigation into…

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Out of sight, but not out of court

Posted on July 6, 2011 by Dissent

I’ve been busy recently, backfilling DataLossDB.org. I’m currently working on  2007 (because who wants to tackle 2008 until we have to, right?). In the process, I’ve been reminded of some breaches that most of us probably never paid much attention to or followed up on. As a case in point, consider  this entry in my…

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Connexion Hack Team dumps military and government email addresses and passwords as well as a California government site’s table of donors

Posted on July 6, 2011 by Dissent

16,959 e-mail accounts have been dumped to MediaFire recently, ZeroPaid has learned. The 1.18MB text file was uploaded by Connexion Hack Team. The file contains government and military e-mail accounts and passwords. ZeroPaid has also learned that many popular e-mail providers are also seen in the list of accounts compromised. Read more on ZeroPaid, who provide  a…

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Or we’ll huff and we’ll puff and we’ll blow your house down? Businesses must open their doors to audits, says ICO

Posted on July 6, 2011 by Dissent

Businesses should be more willing to undergo data protection audits, the Information Commissioner, Christopher Graham, said today. The warning comes as figures published in the ICO’s annual report show that private companies reported the most data security breaches of any sector in 2010/11. A data security breach is an incident that results in the loss,…

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