Katherine Lofthouse reports: UK banks will now have to publish complaints and security breach data as part of efforts to shake up Britain’s heavily consolidated industry. This means that it is vital for banks to be transparent in order to increase customer trust says Fujitsu UK & Ireland, responding to the news. Sarah Armstrong-Smith, head of continuity…
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Former Manitoba Health employee snooped on records of family, senior public officials: ombudsman
CBC News reports: The province’s ombudsman says Manitoba Health didn’t do enough to mitigate the risks of a privacy breach. That was Charlene Paquin’s finding in a report detailing the investigation of an employee who accessed the medical records of his estranged daughter, colleagues and some senior public officials. The ombudsman’s report, released Tuesday, included 11 recommendations, including hiring…
South Korea Imposes ~$55,000 Fines On a Crypto Operator for Security Failures
There’s a follow-up to the Bithumb hack, noted previously on this site. Profit Confidential reports: An operator of Bithumb, BTC Korea.com, was reportedly fined for leaking the data of its users. They allegedly stored the data without encrypting it, and according to reports, their anti-virus software was not updated as well. Due to this loophole,…
What were the worst health data breaches in 2017?
I’ve been working on compiling some annual statistics for 2017 for Protenus. This will be their second year of publishing an annual report for U.S. breaches involving health data, and I think readers will find some surprises in the statistics. Sometimes numbers do not match our impressions. But as I was working on entering and…
Biometrics Won’t Solve Our Data-Security Crisis
Eduard Goodman of CyberScout writes: The history of proving one’s identity with official documentation dates back 600 years to the realm of King Henry V in England. Prior to that, your name and local reputation was pretty much all you needed to prove who you were. The Safe Conducts Act of 1414 created the first…
Humanitarian data breaches: the real scandal is our collective inaction
Nathaniel A. Raymond, Daniel P. Scarnecchia, and Stuart R. Campo write: The news that a platform used by at least 11 major operational NGOs and UN agencies may be relatively easy to breach, potentially exposing the personal, location, and demographic data of tens of thousands of highly vulnerable people, is deeply disturbing but not surprising….