Predeep Nambiar reports: Over 600,000 “rows of private data” from the Penang government’s official website have allegedly been stolen and uploaded onto the internet. The data was uploaded to a forum known as BreachForums by a user with the handle “LeakBase” on Jan 18, who said it was available for download. Read more at Free…
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Patients involved in Nova Scotia mass shooting among those caught up in major privacy breach
Bill Dicks reports: Nova Scotia Health is under the microscope after eight employees were found snooping into medical records. The privacy breaches involve the electronic health records of people associated with the April 2020 mass shooting in Nova Scotia, among others. The Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner says the discoveries were made by…
Health cards’ data stolen from one of Pakistan’s biggest hospitals
Haroon Hayder reports: The Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS) in Islamabad has confirmed that the data regarding the Sehat Sahulat Program (health cards) was stolen from the hospital last year. According to reports, the health cards’ data was stolen from the hospital’s Accounts Section. PIMS’ sources have claimed that they have no record of…
Derriford Hospital admits data breach as patient sent list of complaints against hospital
William Telford reports: Health chiefs have admitted a data breach after a patient received a list of people who had made complaints against Plymouth’s Derriford Hospital. Retired horse breeder Jeanette Anderson was stunned when an email from the hospital contained confidential details of complainants including, she said, bereaved families. University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust has…
“Now, hundreds of debts have been forgiven. Hundreds of rejections have been accepted:” Claims by hacker of Chile’s General Treasury of the Republic.
Access to Tesorería General de la República, the General Treasury of the Republic of Chile (TGR) may be up for sale on a popular hacking forum. A forum post claiming that tesorería.cl and tgr.cl had been hacked was first reported by Germán Fernández on Twitter on January 30. The post by a new forum member…
Hk: Thousands affected by Institute of Bankers data leak following ransomware incident
rthk reports: The Office of the Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data said on Thursday that it has issued an enforcement notice to the Hong Kong Institute of Bankers, following a data leak that affected more than 13,000 members and about 100,000 non-members. Speaking at a press conference, the watchdog said people’s personal information was leaked…