Steve Ducharme reports: Thousands of records containing the private clinical information of Nunavut residents treated at the Qikiqtani General Hospital in Iqaluit may have gone missing more than a year ago, but the Department of Health decided not to notify the public about what could be a massive information and privacy breach. That’s because health…
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The Irish National Teacher’s Organisation suffers breach affecting up to 30,000 teachers
Conor Donnelly reports: The Irish National Teachers’ Organisation (INTO) warns that personal details of up to 30,000 teachers in Ireland may be at risk because of a breach. Teachers who completed online courses on the INTO’s learning website (intolearning.ie) in the past few years, including retired teachers who had booked retirement planning courses, may be…
FI: THL: Personal data and lab results of more than 6,000 people were exposed online for months
YLE reports: A data leak earlier this year saw the personal data and even laboratory test results of some 6,000 patients posted online, said the National Institute for Health and Welfare (THL) on Tuesday. The data ombudsman informed THL of the leak in August. The institute then removed the data from two online services where…
Deloitte hit by cyber-attack revealing clients’ secret emails
Nick Hopkins reports: One of the world’s “big four” accountancy firms has been targeted by a sophisticated hack that compromised the confidential emails and plans of some of its blue-chip clients, the Guardian can reveal. Deloitte, which is registered in London and has its global headquarters in New York, was the victim of a cybersecurity…
Telstra glitch sends personal SMS messages to random recipients after fire at exchange
Richard McLeish reports: Personal SMS messages of Telstra customers were sent to random recipients on competing networks across Australia on Thursday afternoon in a huge potential security breach for the telco. Unwitting phone users across Australia took to Twitter to express confusion about receiving random SMS messages from about 3pm. Read more on The Esperance…
Lawyer: Hacker in Spanish custody sought by US, Russia
AP reports: Russian authorities are fighting the extradition of an alleged Russian hacker from Spain to the United States, the suspect’s lawyer said Friday, in the latest move by Moscow to block U.S. prosecution of suspected Russian cybercriminals. Pyotr Levashov, a 37-year-old known as one of the world’s most notorious hackers, was arrested earlier this…