Greg Meckbach reports: Aviva Canada has a duty to defend a nurse who is being sued for privacy breach by a patient whose medical records were accessed in a Simcoe, Ontario hospital, the Court of Appeal for Ontario ruled in a decision released March 28. The patient, known in court records as J.L., is suing…
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JP: Massive data leak from government ministries
NHK reports: The Japanese government’s cybersecurity center has warned that the email addresses and passwords of thousands of ministry employees have been leaked and are being sold on the Internet. The National Center of Incident Readiness and Strategy for Cybersecurity issued the warning to all ministries on Tuesday. It said a massive amount of personal…
Ca: Information breach at Royal Inland Hospital as binder with patient data goes missing
Dale Bass reports: John Ranta isn’t happy about a privacy breach at Royal Inland Hospital. The mayor of Cache Creek and former chair of the Thompson-Nicola Hospital District board said he was given a copy of a letter sent to one of the people in his community from RIH, advising that a binder with patient…
Data Protection Commissioner to investigate alleged INM breach
The Data Protection Commissioner intends to investigate whether personal data was accessed in an alleged data breach at Independent News & Media. In a statement, Commissioner Helen Dixon added that she would be investigating whether data was it processed in accordance with data protection legislation. Read more on RTÉ .
20 hackers arrested in EUR 1 million bank phishing scam
A two-year long cybercrime investigation between the Romanian National Police and the Italian National Police, with the support of Europol, its Joint Cybercrime Action Taskforce (J-CAT) and Eurojust, has led to the arrest of 20 suspects in a series of coordinated raids on 28 March. 9 individuals in Romania and 11 in Italy remain in…
AU: Health department breached Privacy Act in 2016 incident
AAP reports: The federal health department breached the Privacy Act when it released data about one in 10 Australians and didn’t adequately protect their identities. In August 2016 the department published data on a government website regarding a 10 per cent sample of people who had made a claim for payment of Medicare benefits since…