Vinson Kurian reports: At a time when threats to data security have taken centre-stage, a public sector bank has been faulted for ‘causing harassment’ to a customer whose net banking credentials were compromised for no fault of his. Acting on a complaint from Balaji Srinivasan, a Hyderabad-based software engineer, the Central Information Commission (CIC) chastised…
Category: Breach Incidents
HBO hackers obtained all of HBO’s social media logins and GIPHY credentials
A new email arrived from “Mr. Smith” yesterday. It announced that the HBO “Giphy” platform had been hacked by the same group that hacked Game of Thrones. But it was more than just the GIPHY program access that was hacked. Attached to the email from Mr. Smith was a file with HBO’s passwords for all…
UK: Hospital staff sacked for prying on patients’ medical records in Suffolk and Colchester hospitals
Tom Bristow reports: Hospital staff have been dismissed and suspended for looking up patients’ confidential medical information. They are among hundreds of data protection breaches reported by the NHS in Suffolk and North Essex in the last two years. No harm was done in the majority of cases but the most common serious breaches involved…
Surgical Dermatology Group notifies patients after TekLinks hacked
From their web site: On June 7, 2017, Surgical Dermatology Group in Birmingham, Alabama (“SDG”) received notice from its cloud hosting and server management provider, TekLinks, Inc., of a security breach at its Birmingham facility that hosts our server. We immediately initiated an investigation and learned that external hackers had gained access to our server…
HBO Hackers Dump Game of Throne Scripts, Another Episode, and Confidential Corporate Files
“If history repeats itself, HBO may NEVER be the same Again. Winter Really is here” HB-Old is Dying……. — From an Email from the HBO Hackers This evening, the hackers who grabbed headlines last week by announcing their hack of HBO, released more files and more evidence of how thoroughly they may have ransacked some…
Protenus Mid-Year Breach Barometer report on health data breaches is out
Protenus, in collaboration with DataBreaches.net, has released its Breach Barometer Mid-Year Review of breaches involving health data. You can access their free report here (pdf). Heather Landi of Healthcare Informatics also has a good write-up of the webinar we held this week to discuss the report. I’ll have more to say on the report –…