Catherine Shanahan reports: Documents with sensitive patient data identifying children and adults, details of surgical procedures, and reasons for missing appointments have been found on a busy city-centre street in Cork. The highly personalised information relating to patients attending Cork University Hospital (CUH) for plastic surgery was discovered by Luke Field, a Labour Party local…
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Hong Kong gov’t dental clinic loses personal information of nearly 400 patients
Holmes Chan reports: A government-run dental clinic has lost an appointment book that contains the personal information of about 383 patients. The Department of Health revealed the incident on Thursday, saying that the Li Po Chun Dental Clinic in Tai Kok Tsui had lost information related to bookings made from January to June 2015. The…
Was WallStreet Market seized by German authorities or is this just another part of the exit scam? [UPDATE: it’s real]
Did a darkweb marketplace known as WallStreet Market wind up seized by German authorities after its moderators pulled an exit scam? Or is what may be intended to look like a seizure by German authorities just another part of the exit scam? Today’s drama on the darkweb started after what appeared to be a seizure…
PH: Hackers breach database of UNIFAST
Mario Casayuran reports: The database of the Unified Student Financial Assistance System for Tertiary Education (UNIFAST) has been breached by hackers. […] The data breach committed last March exposed the personal data of more than one million Tertiary Education Subsidy (TES) applicants, Gatchalian said. He said the TES database containing the private data of 1,130,899…
NZ: Privacy breach: More than 100 Hauora Tairāwhiti patient files in Gisborne missing
Ben Leahy reports: A Gisborne physiotherapist who lost more than 100 patient files from her practice has been found guilty of misconduct due to the risk to her patients’ privacy. Jane Moore committed the privacy breaches from 2012 to 2015 while working as a physiotherapist for Hauora Tairāwhiti district health board, according to a recent…
UK: Government in email privacy gaffe
BBC reports: A government department responsible for data protection laws has shared the contact details of hundreds of journalists. The Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport emailed more than 300 recipients in a way that allowed their addresses to be seen by other people. The email – seen by the BBC – contained a…