MyJoyOnline reports: Four computers used by the Electoral Commission (EC) for the Limited Biometric Voter Registration exercise have been stolen at Savelugu in the Northern region. The office of the Commission was broken into through the window Sunday night. “The locks were still on as if nothing had happened” when electoral officers went to the office,…
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I never meant harm, says student who hacked Canada Revenue to show vulnerability to Heartbleed virus
There’s an update to the hack of the Canada Revenue Agency, first disclosed in April 2014 and the young man who was charged in the case. Jane Sims reports: A student computer whiz who stole 900 social insurance numbers from the files of the Canada Revenue Agency to demonstrate its online vulnerability pleaded guilty and apologized on…
Ohio Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services (OhioMHAS) notifies patients of PHI exposure
This April 22nd notice seems to have flown under the media radar: The Ohio Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services (OhioMHAS) today notified the public of a privacy incident involving protected health information (PHI). The issue involves a February 2016 postcard sent to consumers of mental health services inviting participation in a satisfaction survey….
Ca: Privacy breach gave Norfolk County employees access to colleagues’ banking info, SIN numbers
J.P. Antonacci reports: Richard Shaw was surprised when a courier showed up at his house Friday morning with a letter from Norfolk County informing him that his personal information had been accidentally made available without his permission. Shaw, a volunteer firefighter in Teeterville, was one of 1,200 county employees whose name, home address, phone number,…
Probationary employee at CDOT misused employee info
Kieran Nicholson reports: State investigators are looking into a database breach at the Colorado Department of Transportation which could lead to identity thefts. The breach of the Disadvantaged Business Enterprise program with CDOT was discovered recently and has been reported to the Colorado Bureau of Investigation, said Amy Ford, a CDOT spokeswoman. […] “A probationary…
Romanian hacker Guccifer: I breached Clinton server, ‘it was easy’
Catherine Herridge and Pamela K. Browne report on a jail-house interview with Marcel Lehel Lazar, aka, “Guccifer,” about how he hacked then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s email server. You read their story on Fox News. If he’s telling the truth, there was nothing very sophisticated about his approach.