From the Information Commissioner’s Office, this announcement about what is a record fine for them: Telecoms company TalkTalk has been issued with a record £400,000 fine by the ICO for security failings that allowed a cyber attacker to access customer data “with ease”. The ICO’s in-depth investigation found that an attack on the company last October could have been…
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Ca: Patient information shows up at wrong Corner Brook company
Colleen Connors reports: Western Health faces a privacy breach after 10 pages of patient information were incorrectly sent to a company in Corner Brook Tuesday. The documents include patient names, phone numbers and information pertaining to their doctors. The paperwork also listed medical transportation expenses required for patients living at BayShore Estates, a personal care home…
AU: 96,000 public servants in new data breach
Noel Towell reports: The federal government is caught up in a second data privacy scare, this time involving a massive data-set on more then 96,000 of its public servants amid fears their confidential information might not be secure. In the second potentially serious Commonwealth data breach to become public in less than a week, the…
Illegal pot dispensary customers fume over email privacy breach
Jacquie Miller reports: Who’s shopping at Ottawa’s largest local marijuana dispensary chain? That information has been widely shared after Magna Terra Health Services accidentally sent an email to nearly 500 “clients and friends” that listed all their email addresses. Some Magna Terra customers who want to keep their medical marijuana purchases private are upset. Magna…
RedHack leaks reveal the rise of Turkey’s pro-government Twitter trolls
Efe Kerem Sozeri reports: Leaked emails from the Turkish government provide new details of how Turkey’s pro-government Twitter troll army targets the opposition and silences media criticism in the media. Last Friday, RedHack, a Marxist hacker group, claimed to have hacked personal email accounts of Turkey’s Energy Minister and President Erdoğan’s son-in-law, Berat Albayrak. They threatened to leak data if Turkey…
UK: Five men sentenced over insider breach helping corporate rival
From Thames Valley Police: Five men have been sentenced today (30/9) following an investigation by Thames Valley Police and the South East Regional Organised Crime Unit (SEROCU). The men were originally arrested by Thames Valley Police in March last year, in an operation with the support of SEROCU. The investigation was then passed onto SEROCU’s…