Ry Crozier reports: The Australian Digital Health Agency, overseer of the My Health Record, has expressed concern at the number and type of “potential” data breaches it is being forced to disclose. In a submission to the Privacy Act review [pdf], the agency (ADHA) asks for changes to the My Health Records Act under which…
Category: Government Sector
Tasmania Police called in after ambulance patient details published online
Emily Baker reports: The private details of every Tasmanian who has called an ambulance since November last year have been published online by a third party in a list still updating each time paramedics are dispatched. The breach of Ambulance Tasmania’s paging system has been described as “horrific” by the Health and Community Services Union,…
Corporate Secrets at Risk in Hack of U.S. Courts Documents
Bloomberg Law reports: The Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts on Wednesday disclosed the “apparent compromise” of the electronic filing and case management system, known as CM/ECF. An AO spokesperson told Bloomberg Law the compromise is likely connected to the hack of SolarWinds’ Orion products, which affected multiple government agencies and companies. The AO said…
Decrypted: How bad was the US Capitol breach for cybersecurity?
Zack Whittaker reports on concerns that were raised after the massive security failure at the Capitol that resulted in attackers having access to papers, hard drives and more. Zack reiterates some comforting thoughts that were offered on Twitter in the aftermath of the rampage: Most lawmakers don’t have ready access to classified materials, unless it’s…
DoJ says SolarWinds hackers breached its Office 365 system and read email
Dan Goodin reports: The US Justice Department has become the latest federal agency to say its network was breached in a long and wide-ranging hack campaign that’s believed to have been backed by the Russian government. In a terse statement issued Wednesday, Justice Department spokesman Marc Raimondi said that the breach wasn’t discovered until December 24, which…
Indian government sites leaking patient COVID-19 test results
Is there anyone who didn’t see this coming? Ax Sharma reports: Websites of multiple Indian government departments, including national health and welfare agencies, are leaking COVID-19 lab test results for thousands of patients online. These leaked lab reports which are being indexed by search engines expose patient data, and whether they tested positive for coronavirus. Read more on BleepingComputer.