The Canadian Press reports that the B.C. Lottery Corporation denies that there was any hacking involved in a breach that allowed some online gamblers access to others’ information: The Crown corporation added casino-style games such as blackjack and poker to its PlayNow.com site last week, and the service soon crashed as users choked the company’s…
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St. Luke’s notifies employees that lost computer tape contains their personal information
Note: this incident is related to a breach previously reported on DataBreaches.net. Katy Moeller reports: St. Luke’s Health System has notified several thousand hospital employees in Boise, Wood River and Twin Falls that a computer back-up tape containing some of their personal information went missing in an office move. St. Luke’s spokesman Ken Dey said…
HHS reveals three more breaches
HHS/OCR’s web site reveals three more breaches that were never reported in mainstream media: The Long Island Consultation Center in New York is a private mental health clinic providing outpatient psychiatric services. According to an alert on their web site: On May 24, a computer device was reported missing from a secured area at LICC….
NDP: B.C.’s new online gambling website may have been hacked (updated)
Vivian Luk reports: British Columbians’ personal information may have been compromised when the government’s online gambling website, PlayNow.com, crashed last week, according to the New Democratic Party. PlayNow, the first government-sanctioned online casino in North America, was shut down only hours after it was launched last Thursday. The B.C Lottery Corp. said unexpectedly high traffic…
MD: State employee posts nearly 3,000 SSNs online
Liz F. Kay reports: A Maryland Department of Human Resources employee was placed on administrative leave after posting the Social Security numbers and other personal information of nearly 3,000 clients of a state agency on a third-party website, a spokeswoman for the agency said. There’s no evidence that the information was used for identity theft,…
FL: Thousands of personal record files dumped in recycling bin
By Lisa A. Davis and Neil Johnson report: On Sunday morning, Karen and Scott Keith made their monthly stop at the Land O’ Lakes Recycling center to drop off household recycling items. When they looked at the paper bin it was not only full to the point of pushing up the lid, it was practically…