The health service needs to do more to keep patients’ personal information secure, the Information Commissioner said today. The warning comes as the ICO finds a further five health organisations in breach of the Data Protection Act. Information Commissioner, Christopher Graham, said: “The health service holds some of the most sensitive personal information of any…
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Database of Pakistani web site users exposed by hackers
A Pakistani web site, urdugalaxy.com, has reportedly been breached, according to a data dump posted on Pastebin. The database, which has not been confirmed by the web site as theirs, contains data on registered site users’ first and last names, city, country, cellphone number, profession, email address, date of birth, password (in plaintext), and ID (although…
Dk: Statoil Fuel & Retail closes three customer portals as result of data breach (update)
On Tuesday 28 June, Statoil Fuel & Retail closed down its customer portals in Norway, Sweden and Denmark after becoming aware that their information may have been compromised as a result of a data breach. The company has also notified the Data Protection Agency of the situation. “There are indications that client data may have…
DropBox CEO: Lone hacker downloaded data from ‘fewer than a hundred’ accounts
Jason D. O’Grady reports that some accounts were accessed during a recent DropBox security snafu: Earlier this week, we wrote to tell you about a security lapse at Dropbox. Today I am writing to tell you something I never expected to tell a customer. During our forensic analysis, we discovered that an extremely small number…
TN: Laptop with more than 1,500 patients’ data stolen
Chris Echegaray reports: A laptop containing more than 1,500 patient names and their personal information was stolen from a medical billing company employee’s car last month. PhyData LLC, a medical billing and management company in Goodlettsville, reported the laptop stolen from the trunk of the worker’s vehicle at RiverGate Mall on May 7, said Joy…
Yet another mailing error from Blue Cross Blue Shield of Florida?
Oops! It seems I missed another Blue Cross Blue Shield mailing error data breach. It’s understandable, I suppose, since there have been a bunch of Blue Cross breaches in the past few months, but thanks to the good folks at ITRC for alerting me to the omission. Here’s Blue Cross Blue Shield of Florida’s statement…