Seen on reddit, posted by “hiimquinten:” Okay, guys. This is my first time here so sorry if somethings not right about this post. But I have no idea where to go about addressing this. My friends and I went ghost hunting in an abandoned school in our town tonight. It was the typical very old…
Category: Exposure
UK: Alert auctioneer stops data of 7,000 patients in west Norfolk being sold to highest bidder after blunder at Queen Elizabeth Hospital
Thank goodness for alert auctioneers. Sophie Biddle reports: A health chief at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, in King’s Lynn, has announced a full internal investigation is underway after a piece of medical equipment containing personal data slipped through the first stage of their disposal process. The potential for the information to be leaked was however…
Three associated with “Anonymous” on trial in Paris for hacking police union
There’s a follow-up on a hacking case in France that I didn’t report on at the time. Oh well…. thankfully, Catalin Cimpanu has the details: Three hackers who were associated with the Anonymous movement are on trial in Paris, France, after hacking a French police union’s website and dumping the data of 541 police officers…
MI: Resident discovers sensitive personal documents in Wyandotte Recycling Center bin
Jim Kasuba reports: It’s common knowledge that documents with personal information should be destroyed after no longer needed in order to lessen chances of identity theft. In most cases they’re put through a shredder. That wasn’t the case recently when a man using the Wyandotte Recycling Center, 1170 Grove, came upon documents that raised all…
Jason Pierre-Paul suing ESPN, writer for tweeting medical records
Julia Marsh reports: Giants defensive end Jason Pierre-Paul is flagging ESPN and its reporter Adam Schefter for posting his private medical records online to millions of readers. Pierre-Paul, 27, sued ESPN and Schefter in a Florida court Wednesday, citing a violation of his privacy. Read more on NY Post. Okay, this seemed to involve a…
AL: Juvenile suspect arrested in JSU student data breach
First his Twitter account was suspended. Then he was arrested. That’s probably why he didn’t respond to an email inquiry from this site. There’s an update to the JSU breach reported yesterday. William Thornton reports that a juvenile has been arrested by order of the District Court of Calhoun County and is being detained by the Coosa Valley…