Cambridge News reports: Patients have been warned of a potential breach of their data after a nurse’s car was broken into and her handbag stolen. An out of hours car, used by a community nurse with Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust (CPFT), was broken into on July 9 while parked outside a patient’s home in east Chesterton…
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Ransomware attack on Delhi-based diagnostic centre
The Hindu reports: A diagnostic centre in the national Capital was recently targeted by unknown hackers, who through a ransomware gained illegal access to its servers and encrypted the data. They demanded ransom from the owner in the form of bitcoins to restore the data. […] Based on a complaint from the diagnostic centre, the…
FI: Researchers of leaking psychological test results
Helsinki Times reports: The Finnish Defence Forces’ accusations that researchers have leaked the results of psychological tests conducted on hundreds of thousands of conscripts are exceptional, estimates Reijo Aarnio, the Data Protection Ombudsman of Finland. […] The scope of the alleged data leak is very unusual, if not outright unprecedented, says Aarnio.“But you’re talking about…
Israeli firm claims it hacked ISIS forum where group plans attacks
JTA reports: An Israeli cyberintelligence company claims it has hacked Islamic State communications and learned about the group’s plans to attack U.S. air bases in Kuwait, Bahrain and Saudi Arabia. Intsights, which is run by former Israel Defense Forces intelligence officers and based in Herzliya, said Wednesday it had hacked the forum on which ISIS…
Wellington health board’s smear email breached privacy of grieving mother
Nikki MacDonald reports: Wellington health board chief executive Debbie Chin has been censured for sending an all-staff email attacking the reputation of a mother whose son died in the hospital’s care. The Privacy Commission has found the email, sent by the Capital & Coast District Health Board chief executive to all the board’s 3200 staff, breached grieving mother Lyn Copland’s…
Auckland lab tech caught accessing patient records 890 times can return to work
Thomas Manch reports: An Auckland DHB lab technician has been censured after inappropriately prying into medical records. Rosalinda Zabala inappropriately accessed the medical records of patients, including a one-year-old, just short of 900 times in a three year period. Zabala, who worked for the DHB for more than 15 years, admitted her wrongdoing when confronted by management and lost her job in December 2014. Read more…