Juliette Garside reports: An IT worker at the Geneva offices of Mossack Fonseca, the offshore law firm at the centre of the Panama Papers scandal, has been arrested in the hunt for the whistleblower behind the biggest ever leak to journalists. […] “A procedure has been opened by the public ministry of Geneva following a complaint…
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Aspen Valley Hospital accused of patient-privacy breach
Another “small breach, big impact” story. Rick Carroll reports: A former Aspen Valley Hospital employee who says a human resources manager outed him as HIV-positive is alleging the hospital repeatedly violated patient-confidentiality laws. […] Doe joined the hospital in 2003 as its conference center coordinator. In August 2013, he was promoted to a technician in…
UK: Patients’ personal details from Cheltenham General Hospital ward left in street
Alex Shipman reports: An investigation has been launched after a confidential document with the personal details of patients at Cheltenham General Hospital was dropped in the street. The three-page report, which includes the names, medical history, social and family circumstances, and treatment plan of 34 people, was found in Cleevemount Road. It even includes details…
45 million records from over 1100 Verticalscope.com domains and communities hacked and leaked
LeakedSource has done it again: Verticalscope.com and all of their domains were hacked in February of 2016. LeakedSource has obtained and added a copy of this data to its ever-growing searchable repository of leaked data. […] This data set contains nearly 45 million records from over 1100 websites and communities. Some of the larger domains…
CA: Courthouse data breach exposes personal information
Monica Vaughan reports: Private personal information of potentially thousands of people was unintentionally available on public access computers in the Sutter County Superior Courthouse on Monday. The data breach occurred when a new case management system went live Monday morning. The system was taken down the same afternoon after an Appeal-Democrat reporter alerted Court Executive…
Kern County Mental Health Dept. self-reports data breach
From their notice posted yesterday on their web site: This letter is to inform you of a recent security incident that occurred on 4/15/16 at the Kern County Mental Health Administration offices. Our administration offices recently relocated. During the move, a report was inadvertently left behind in a vacated section of the building that had…