CityNews reports: When Maureen Pittman picked up her prescription from a Mississauga Rexall, she didn’t expect to be bringing home another patient’s entire confidential medication history. [… The 6-page] medication history contains the patient’s name, address, phone number, Ontario Health Insurance number, what medications were prescribed and what they are generally used for. Once Pittman realized…
Category: Non-U.S.
Telecom giant accuses employee of data theft
A telecom in India has filed a criminal complaint against a former employee for stealing proprietary information on his way out. Times of India doesn’t name the employee, but the firm seems to be Gujarat Telecom Circle.
RU: Opposition PARNAS party cancels primaries over massive leak of voters’ personal data
Oh great – another voter database leak. RT reports: The Russian Party of People’s Freedom, PARNAS, has had to suspend its internet primaries after a file with personal details of all participants was placed on the party’s website. Top party officials blame unidentified hackers for the privacy breach. PARNAS was holding primaries in order to…
Odisha student arrested for hacking into Lloyd Electrical and Engineering Ltd, causing financial loss of Rs. 60 lakhs
Anand Narayanaswamy reports: Hacking is not an easy task but for Himalaya Mohanty, a 19-year old student currently pursuing his ITI course in Odisha, it was just a fun which turned into nightmare. Mohanty allegedly hacked into the EPABX of a private company in the city using his own mobile phone, which resulted in financial…
I can’t even…
The headline in the Daily Mail basically says it all: British teenager hacks North Korea’s newly-launched Facebook site after guessing the login and password were set to ‘admin’ and ‘password’ Well almost all. Note that this is not Facebook’s site but a Facebook clone called phpDolphin. Even so…
Ca: Veterans Affairs admits to another privacy breach by Canadian legion staff
David Pugliese reports: Veterans Affairs is acknowledging another case where the confidential files of a Canadian veteran were accessed, without consent, by an employee of the Royal Canadian Legion. The Ottawa Citizen reported on such cases in early May, but at the time, Veterans Affairs said it was aware of only one complaint about unauthorized…