Carmel Robinson reports that patient records containing patients’ names, their age, social history as well as a brief medical history and why they had been admitted to hospital were found on a public road by a man walking with his child: The patient records relate to a date in January and refer to 18 named…
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ZA: Nedbank warns clients after data breach – 1.7 million clients potentially affected
BusinessTech reports: Nedbank says it has investigated a data security issue that occurred at the premises of a third-party service provider, namely Computer Facilities – a direct marketing company that issues SMS and email marketing information on behalf of Nedbank and a number of other companies. A subset of the potentially compromised data at Computer…
Why, oh why, don’t some entities respond to notifications about leaking patient data, Wednesday edition
Since the summer of 2019, this site has occasionally reported on findings by WizCase researchers, such as our report in October on multiple entities that they had discovered leaking medical or health data. Today, WizCase reported on three more leaks that they discovered leaking patient data. They shared their findings exclusively with DataBreaches.net. The first…
UK: RideLondon organisers apologise after data breach
BBC reports: Organisers of the RideLondon cycling event are “urgently looking into” a data breach involving potential participants’ personal details. It is unclear how many applicants have been affected by the issue which saw entrants receive other people’s ballot results. The events, due to be held in August, is open to 80,000 applications and last…
Personal info of 6m. Israelis leaked after Likud uploads voter info
Tzvi Joffre reports: The personal information of 6,453,254 Israelis was leaked after the Likud Party uploaded the entire Israeli national voter registry to an application, according to Haaretz. The leaked information includes names, identification numbers, phone numbers and addresses. Political parties in Israel receive the information of Israeli voters before the elections and have to protect their privacy…
Powerful Cyber Attack Takes Down 25% Of Iranian Internet
Davey Winder reports: … Iran has seemingly come under cyber-attack. Indeed, so powerful was the impact of this alleged attack that the internet was disrupted across the country. The NetBlocks internet observatory, which maps internet freedom in real-time, confirmed that there was extensive Iranian telecommunications network disruption on the morning of February 8. Read more…