Vodafone has fired a number of employees following an investigation into security breaches on the weekend. Customer records were leaked after a password to the telco’s internet database was shared by a number of people. Since the incident, Vodafone says it has let employees go and contacted the New South Wales Police. Read more on…
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Case Note 210870 [2010] NZ Priv Cmr 24 : Medical centre fails to establish identity of requester and discloses health information about a patient to their former partner
From the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of New Zealand: A man, M, who was involved in legal proceedings with his former partner, X, was a patient of a medical centre. The medical centre previously provided medical care to M and his family when he and X were still together. X visited the medical centre with…
UK: Dorset HealthCare Trust send confidential health faxes by mistake
Joanna Codd reports: Highly confidential faxes about people with mental health problems have been mistakenly sent to a Bournemouth business over a period of 18 months. Despite the business alerting officials to the problem, the documents have continued to arrive at the offices of Cole Valuations in Exeter Road at the rate of two or…
WA: HACKED: Kadlec notifying patients of computer server breach
From the staff of Tri-City Herald: Kadlec Regional Medical Center officials announced today that patients are being notified that one of the hospital’s computer servers containing brain scan and other patient studies was hacked in September. Files housed on the server included information including a patient’s name, birth date, age, gender, medical record number and…
Seacoast Radiology Computer Server Breached – 231,400 Patients Notified
From a Seacoast Radiology press release: Seacoast Radiology, PA discovered on November 12, 2010 that an office server containing personal patient data and billing information was accessed by an unauthorized third party. Access to this server was disabled immediately and an independent investigation concluded that unauthorized use of patient and billing data is unlikely. All patients…
“Ugg Got Hacked: Sheepskin Boot Security Compromised Worldwide”
Well, no, that’s the headline on Racked, but what happened is the SilverPop breach we heard so much about last month. Racked has uploaded an image of UGG Australia’s notification to its customers, which names SilverPop and notes that customer information in the database included names, email addresses, and geographic information (city, country, zip code)….