At least 200 Hampshire residents applying for permission for a new extension, wall or fence learned that their names, home addresses, email details, phone numbers, and signatures had been posted on the New Forest District Council’s web site despite the council’s policy of redacting such information. The breach was discovered by The Daily Echo. Read…
Author: Dissent
Pointer: Visa Suspends Heartland: A Little Revisionist History?
Over on StorefrontBacktalk, Evan Schuman has some sharp and thought-provoking commentary on Visa’s suspension of Heartland’s and RBS’s approved status and assertions that “no compromised entity has been found to be [PCI] compliant at the time of the breach.”
Nine Families Sue State of Minnesota
Citizens’ Council of Health Care (CCHC) announced that a lawsuit has been filed today against the Minnesota Department of Health in response to the Department’s violation of the 2006 state genetic privacy law by its collection, storage, use and dissemination of newborn blood and baby DNA. Nine families have come together to sue the State…
Public sector crippled by ‘lovesick’ hacker
Emily Watkins of Northern Territory News reports that a man who was drunk and upset over the breakup with his fiancee hacked into the government system using her password and deleted 10,475 accounts from the Health Department, hospital, prison and Supreme Court servers. It reportedly took 130 experts to find the problem and fix it,…
RBS WorldPay denies second breach
When rumors were swirling last month about a “new” breach related to Visa and MasterCard alerts , there was speculation in a number of quarters as to whether the newest alerts were related to a second breach at RBS WorldPay that had previously been undetected or perhaps the new round of alerts might be because…
Statement from Heartland Payment Systems
Just sent to me by HPS: Heartland Payment Systems (NYSE: HPY) is pleased to continue our long relationship with Visa. Heartland is cooperating fully with Visa and other card brands and we are committed to having a safe and secure processing environment. Heartland was certified as PCI-DSS compliant in April 2008 and expects to continue…