Nic Andersen reports: In our country at the moment, you blink once and there is another crisis. This evening, shocking details have emerged of a very suspicious break-in at the offices of Chief Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng. In the early hours of Saturday morning 15 computers were stolen, in South Africa that may sound normal to you, wait…
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UK: 26 million NHS patients’ records in security scare over SystmOne “enhanced data sharing”
Did no one really understand what “enhanced data sharing” would permit until now? Laura Donnelly reports: The medical records of 26 million patients are embroiled in a major security breach amid warnings that the IT system used by thousands of GPs is not secure. The Information Commissioner is investigating concerns that records held by 2,700 practices…
Missouri sheriff’s office leaked audio of police informants and victims after ransomware attack
Dell Cameron reports: A data breach at a Missouri law enforcement agency in January left thousands of sensitive records exposed online, including jail incident reports, arrest records, and more. Security researchers who discovered the breach at the Warren County Sheriff’s Department say the leaked backup files—numbering in the hundreds of gigabytes—also include multiple audio recordings…
Did you hear the one about a Secret Service agent who left a laptop in her car?
From the I-Can’t-Even dept.: An unoccupied vehicle with Maryland plates was broken into and a bag with a laptop and other items belonging to a Secret Service agent was stolen, sources told CBS2. The break-in happened outside of the agent’s home in Bath Beach, Brooklyn, sources said. It’s not like there was anything important on…
Singapore Armed Forces apologizes for data leak
Chong Zi Liang reports: The identity card numbers and photos of a batch of Singapore Armed Forces (SAF) recruits were published online by mistake last Saturday before the authorities realised the error and removed the information the next day. In a statement, Basic Military Training Centre (BMTC) commander Desmond Yeo apologised for the blunder, adding…
Virus found in database of Arkansas job seekers, state says
Eric Besson reports: Investigators are trying to determine whether personal information — including Social Security numbers — for an estimated 19,000 Arkansas job seekers was stolen after a virus was detected in a statewide database, a government spokesman said. Arkansas Department Workforce Services spokesman Steve Guntharp said Thursday that it was not immediately clear whether…