CBC News reports: Newfoundland and Labrador’s privacy commissioner is ordering Eastern Health to remind staff to log out of computer programs, following an investigation of a privacy breach. Information and Privacy Commissioner Donovan Molloy’s report describes the May 28, 2015 incident as an “intentional breach of patient information.” The report says an unknown person inappropriately accessed and printed personal health information…
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Hacker Claims to Take Down Russian Bank Websites on Election Day
Joseph Cox reports: Just as Americans are lining up to vote, one DDoS-for-hire service has already claimed responsibility for several brief attacks against Russian targets, apparently in response to the country’s alleged interference throughout the US election. On Tuesday, a hacker calling himself vimproducts showed Motherboard a selection of Russian banking and other financial websites, before claiming…
Ottawa city staff scramble after accidentally releasing retirees’ medical information
Susan Sherring reports: The City of Ottawa has been left scrambling after committing a serious breach privacy in releasing to a reporter the names and some personal and medical information of about a dozen city retirees. Worse yet, the city didn’t realize the error until notified by this reporter. “Allow me to begin this response by…
Seven Indian missions’ websites ‘hacked’, data dumped online: Report
IANS reports: Two hackers allegedly from the Netherlands claimed to have broken into seven Indian High Commission websites, publishing online the login details, passwords and database containing names, passport numbers, email-IDs and phone numbers of people of Indian origin, media reported on Monday. According to a report in E Hacking News website, the Indian High…
UK: Missing GP records in Essex, Norfolk and Suffolk ‘total 9,000’
Nikki Fox reports: More than 9,000 patients’ records in Norfolk, Suffolk and Essex have gone missing since a private firm took on transferring files, a BBC survey shows. Capita took on the national contract from the NHS for delivering patients’ records, when people move from one GP to another, in March. The survey of 78 GP…
Hackers hit Scotland Yard’s site after arrests at Million Mask March
John Simpson reports: Hackers claim to have shut down part of Scotland Yard’s website for eight hours in revenge for dozens of arrests during an anti-capitalist march that ended in violence in central London. The Met’s news website was forced offline while thousands of protesters, many wearing Guy Fawkes masks, marked the fifth of November…