Jennifer Graham reports: Saskatchewan’s privacy commissioner says the province is “bedevilled” by a large number of intrusions into people’s personal information. Gary Dickson said in his annual report released Monday that his office opened 47 investigations into privacy breaches at government institutions over the last year. “What we often find is that it’s not somebody…
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In: Hackers hit National Security Guards website
Durgesh Nandan Jha reports: In a major security breach, the website of the National Security Guards (NSG) was hacked on Friday by anonymous programmers. Sources said the e-mails of certain officers were also hacked after which orders were issued to all officers and the NSG unit posted at the Palam headquarters to avoid using internet…
Report: M’sia group hacked S’pore NParks site
Tyler Thia provides the update to a previously reported breach: The Malaysian hacking group H3x4 Crew has been identified as the ones responsible for breaching Singapore’s National Parks Board (NParks) Web site two weeks ago, according to a report. According to a report Tuesday by local daily The Straits Times, Malaysian employees from business consultancy…
Three newly reported breaches all involved…. paper records
Interesting: the three new breaches on HHS’s breach tool that I hadn’t heard about already all involved paper records. Here are the entries from their tool showing the name(s) of involved entities, the number of patients affected or notified, the date of the breach, and the type of breach: Medicare Fee-for-Service Program, MD, “Cahaba Government…
What they won't tell us, they have to tell HHS: the SRHS breach
It was only a matter of time until we found out how many people Spartanburg Regional Healthcare System had to notify about the laptop stolen from an employee’s car in March. The incident has now been posted on HHS’s breach tool and it appears they reported that 400,000 patients were affected. The employee was authorized…
For Hulu, Facebook Connect becomes a security headache
Declan McCullagh reports: Hulu acknowledged this afternoon that an attempt to integrate itself with Facebook didn’t go exactly as planned. Far from aiding the “entire social experience,” which the video streaming service had promised in its announcement earlier in the day, the attempted integration allowed some Hulu users to access other users’ accounts. In a followup…