Codi Wilson reports: William Osler Health System says an internal investigation has been launched after an employee allegedly accessed patient records to obtain narcotics. In a statement issued Tuesday, William Osler Health System said that earlier this week, it notified patients about the data breach. According to the statement, a staff member allegedly used patient…
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UPSA Sacks 22 Students For Hacking for Grade Manipulation Scheme
The University of Professional Studies, Accra (UPSA) has sacked 22 of its students who hacked into the school’s computer system to manipulate their results. A notice of dismissal from the university said it took the decision after meeting on the issue at an emergency meeting on Wednesday, 15th February, 2017 by the Academic Board. The…
Wellington Student Arrested for Selling Drugs on the Darknet
Dennis writes: A young man with big ambitions for the darknet world has reached his dead end. James Winstanley, a 22-year old man from Wellington, New Zealand is a highly talented and skillful computer science student at the Victoria University. He used his unusual genius to get himself in trouble. Together with two of his…
#AadhaarLeaks: A list of Aadhaar data leaks
I started covering Aadhaar years ago on PogoWasRight.org as a data protection mega-disaster waiting to happen. Those early posts are no longer available online, but I’ve continued to watch for news on its implementation and concerns. And while India’s government keeps reiterating that everything is secure and fine, I keep seeing breach/leak reports. So I…
Ca: eConcordia System Hacked, Student Info at Risk
Earlier this month, notifications were sent that Concordia’s online course systems, eConcordia and KnowledgeOne, had been hacked. Kelsey Litwin reported: An email sent out on April 11 read that, “specifically that your name, your Concordia ID number and your email address, may have been consulted or obtained” via unauthorized access to the sites’ information system….
Aadhaar data leak in Jharkhand raises doubts, again: Here are the details
Business Standard reports: An incident in Jharkhand again seems to have raised some serious questions of Aadhaar’s data-breach vulnerabilities. The Aadhaar numbers of hundreds of thousands of pension beneficiaries were suspected to have been illegally displayed on a government website in Jharkhand, in violation of the Aadhaar Act, The Indian Express reported. The lapse, apparently, occured due…