I don’t understand: if they detected and responded to this phishing incident in November, 2015, why are they first issuing this statement now? June 17, 2016 (Toronto, Ontario) – The Empire Life Insurance Company (Empire Life) announced today that the company is responding to a data breach that may affect a number of its customers. On…
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IE: Civil Service payroll system to be audited following data breach
Elaine Edwards reports that PeoplePoint, the payroll service for about 31,000 Irish civil servants, is being audited in the wake of two breaches and other complaints. A November, 2015 breach was previously reported on DataBreaches.net, as was a more recent one in April. Edwards reports: Since PeoplePoint’s introduction [in 2013], there have also been reports…
Quebec Liberals’ strategy meetings were leaking…
Yet another security incident linked to failure to change default passwords. CJAD in Canada reports that the Quebec Liberals’ failure to change the default password on their videoconferencing system allowed anyone to gain access to strategy meetings. The user who found the flaw showed off the unlimited access to the Journal de Montreal. Published screenshots show archived videos…
Bank of Montreal ATM “hacked” with default password
CORRECTION: This story was originally reported in 2014. Not sure why CJAD reported it as recent news, but thanks to Catalin Cimpanu for letting me know. Original post: So… in a story about another breach, which was also linked to using a default password, CJAD in Canada mentioned a breach that occurred last week: Two 14-year-old high school…
Ca: 397 medical records snooped at Hamilton General Hospital
Joanna Frketich reports on yet another snooping out of curiosity case: An employee snooped into the medical records of 397 patients at Hamilton General Hospital. The staff member was fired after an investigation by Hamilton Health Sciences concluded the privacy of emergency room patients was breached from June 2015 to May 2016. Read more on…
BesaMafia hitman site hacked again
Remember when BesaMafia, a dark web site where people can allegedly hire hitmen was hacked and data was dumped in May? What could be worse, right? Well, they could be hacked again and their data dumped again. The hacker known as “bRpsd” has again embarrassed the site, which claims to be linked to the Albanian Mafia, by…