Joseph Cox reports: A hacker, who wishes to remain anonymous, plans to dump the apparent names, job titles, email addresses and phone numbers of over 20,000 supposed Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) employees, as well as over 9,000 alleged Department of Homeland Security (DHS) employees, Motherboard has learned. The hacker also claims to have downloaded hundreds…
Category: Exposure
Leaked police files contain guarantees disciplinary records will be kept secret
So it seems the Fraternal Order of Police (FOP) hack and data dump did disclose some documents that while not shocking to me, are somewhat annoying to the public. George Joseph reports: Contracts between police and city authorities, leaked after hackers breached the website of the country’s biggest law enforcement union, contain guarantees that disciplinary records…
Jackson Memorial Hospital Fires Two Employees For Accessing, Leaking Jason Pierre-Paul’s Medical Records To ESPN
There’s a follow-up to a medical privacy breach previously discussed on this blog. Jordan Raanan reports: After a lengthy investigation and litigation, two individuals were fired from Jackson Memorial Hospital for inappropriately accessing the medical records of Giants defensive end Jason Pierre-Paul. Read the hospital’s statement on NJ.com.
MI: 700 Letters sent to wrong patients at Borgess Rheumatology
WWMT reports that Borgess Rheumatology is notifying approximately 700 patients who received letters intended for other patients. The mailing error occurred on December 9, 2015, and the medical practice learned of their error on December 10 and began contacting affected patients. According to a statement the news channel received, the letters contained names of patients and the…
NZ: Ministry investigates WINZ privacy breach
Radio New Zealand reports: The Department of Internal Affairs and the Ministry of Social Development are investigating a privacy breach after a Work and Income client accessed someone else’s information. Yesterday, the man told RNZ he was trying to access his WINZ account through government’s RealMe identity verification system and got another client’s details. The man…
IA: Medicap Pharmacy warns of possible data breach (UPDATED)
Matthew Patane reports: Medicap Pharmacy is warning customers about a possible data breach. The company said in a notice that an external hard drive was “inadvertently” disposed of on Nov. 5, 2015. The hard drive contained personal information. Medicap believed all of the information was encrypted, but said it learned on Dec. 3 that some information did…