The Indo-Asian News Service reports: The Delhi Police has arrested two more persons, including a former Army officer, in its ongoing investigation in the pan-India call snooping racket case, officials confirmed today. The former army officer, Captain DK Giri along with another person was arrested a week ago. Police said there were allegedly involved…
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Ca: Grey Bruce Health Services fired employee who snooped in EMR
Grey Bruce Health Services posted the following notice on its site yesterday: Notice of Inappropriate Access to Electronic Medical Records August 30, 2016 Grey Bruce Health Services has recently completed an investigation into a privacy breach. This investigation was initiated after four individuals came forward with concerns about access to personal information within their electronic medical…
AU: Child services breaches foster kids’ privacy at least 58 times: report
Beau Donelly reports: A car was doused in petrol in one of six “significant” cases where children or carers were put in danger as a direct result of the leak-plagued child protection department’s own breaches, a review has uncovered. The state government has put vulnerable children and foster carers “at direct risk of harm” at least 58 times in the…
AU: OAIC accepts undertaking from ARC on Optus customer data breach
Corinne Riechert reports a follow-up to a breach previously noted on this site: The Australian Privacy Commissioner has accepted an enforceable undertaking from ARC Mercantile following a breach of personal customer data at the end of last year, which occurred when an ARC employee posted a spreadsheet of customers owing money to Optus on Freelancer.com. Read more…
UK: Data security incident trends
From the Information Commissioner’s Office, an interesting report with data for Q1 of 2016/17 by sector and attack type. Not surprisingly, the greatest number of breaches were reported by the healthcare sector: Analysis of the types of health data security incidents revealed that the most common sources were errors involving paper records, such as mailing or faxing errors,…
KR: ‘Interpark hack was spearphishing scam’
There’s an update to the Interpark hack reported previously on this site. Won Ho-jung reports: A strategy known as spearsphishing was used in the hacking incident that leaked the personal information of over 10 million consumers registered with e-commerce site Interpark, according to the ICT Ministry and the Korea Communications Commission on Wednesday. According to the…