Charissa Yong reports: American Mikhy Farrera-Brochez was sentenced on Friday (Sept 27) to two years in jail for using a stolen HIV database from Singapore to extort from the Singapore Government. A Kentucky federal court had earlier in June convicted Farrera-Brochez, 34, of two counts of extortion in two e-mails sent on Jan 22 and…
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Two Southwestern Ontario hospitals hit by cyber attack
Kathleen Saylors reports: Two Southwestern Ontario hospitals, connected by shared infrastructure, are currently suffering cyber attacks, the latest in a string of similar incursions in the area this week. The Listowel Wingham Hospitals Alliance, which oversees the Listowel hospital, about 50 kilometres north of Stratford, and the Wingham hospital in northeast Huron County, confirmed Thursday…
Polish data protection authority issues €645,000 fine to online retailer
Jessica Belton reports: Poland’s Personal Data Protection Office (UODO) this week imposed a PLN 2.8 million (€645,000) fine on online retailer Morele.net for “insufficient organisational and technical safeguards”. The data breach affected approximately 2.2 million customers who purchased products through one of the group’s nine websites. Read more on IT Governance.
Vodafone customer account details ‘briefly exposed’ after software update
Tom Pullar-Strecker reports: Vodafone says customers were able to access other people’s account information through its MyVodafone app on Wednesday morning. Spokeswoman Meera Kaushik said the privacy breach followed a planned upgrade to the app at 7am, which resulted in an “unexpected caching issue”. Read more on Stuff.
Heyyo dating app leaked users’ personal data, photos, location, more
Catalin Cimpanu reports: Online dating app Heyyo has made the same mistake that thousands of companies have made before it — namely, it left a server exposed on the internet without a password. This leaky server, an Elasticsearch instance, exposed the personal details, images, location data, phone numbers, and dating preferences for nearly 72,000 users,…
UK: Unshredded NHS records were dumped in a town centre to weigh down scaffolding at art festival
We really need to have an “Oh, FFS!” category for breaches. Rob Pattinson reports: Medical records of hundreds of thousands of NHS patients were dumped in a town centre to weigh down scaffolding. They were meant to be shredded but instead used as ballast for an art festival structure. Read more on The Sun.