Snooping through patient records continues to be a serious problem in the healthcare sector — and it’s not country-specific. Here are two articles that showed up in my news searches this morning. From the UK: NHS disciplines more than two staff a day for mishandling medical records, with employees caught snooping on files of friends,…
Author: Dissent
Metaverse-Like App Pauses User Registration Over Data Leak Claims
Luo Meihan reports: There are problems brewing in early metaverse applications on Chinese social platforms. Zheli, a top social app that is popular for its use of virtual characters, suspended new user registrations Sunday after being accused of violating user privacy and plagiarizing its virtual avatars’ clothing designs. However, its developers said the app was taken down to improve existing user…
Au: Sensitive business addresses among 500,000 published in COVID data breach
Jonathan Kearsley and Clair Weaver report: The addresses of more than 500,000 organisations including defence sites, a missile maintenance unit and domestic violence shelters were inadvertently made public in the first major breach of the NSW government’s massive trove of QR code data. Premier Dominic Perrottet said the information was uploaded in error and the…
UK: Confidential Health Data Of Thousands Of Dorset Patients Leaked By Accident
Andrew Goldman reports: The private data of thousands of NHS patients across Dorset was breached during a five-year-period – among the highest in the country. A new study has shown Dorset Healthcare University NHS Foundation Trust (DHC) experienced the fourth highest number of data breaches in the UK, however the trust says this does not…
Leak site says it has been given list of Canada truck convoy donors after reported hack
Raphael Satter reports: A leak site says it has been given reams of data about the donors to the Canadian anti-vaccine mandate truckers after the fundraising platform popular with supporters of the movement allegedly suffered a hack. Distributed Denial of Secrets announced on its website that it had 30 megabytes of donor information from Christian…
Cydia Dev Discloses Ethereum L2 Bug — Optimism Attacker Could Have ‘Printed an Arbitrary Quantity of Tokens’
Jamie Redman reports: On February 10, the well-known developer of Cydia and iOS Jailbreak, Jay Freeman, otherwise known as Saurik, published a Twitter thread about a bug he found in the Layer-2 (L2) scaling protocol known as Optimism. According to Freeman, the vulnerability, which has been patched, could have allowed an attacker to create an…