In today’s installment of “Epic Infosecurity #FAIL,” more than 93.4 million Mexican citizens have had their voter registration details exposed online due to a misconfigured database. Why a database with Mexican voters’ information was hosted on a server outside of Mexico, who uploaded it to Amazon, and why it wasn’t properly secured are questions in search of answers. Last week, MacKeeper…
Category: Non-U.S.
Charge laid against Manitoba Health employee accused of inappropriately accessing health information
CTV reports: A charge has been laid against a former Manitoba Health employee for accessing personal health information inappropriately. The office of the Manitoba Ombudsman said it conducted an investigation after a report of a privacy breach at Manitoba Health’s Provincial Drug Program. The Ombudsman said a former employee who had access to personal health…
Comelec website hacker arrested – NBI (Updated)
Jenny F. Manongdo reports: The National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) announced the arrest of one of the three persons responsible for the hacking of the website of the Commission on Elections (Comelec) last month. After three weeks of collaborative surveillance efforts between the Comelec, NBI and other government agencies, the 23-year old fresh graduate of an…
‘Stolen’ medical records from Prime Medical clinic found flying around Melbourne park
Julia Medew reports: Medical files belonging to at least a dozen patients have allegedly been stolen from a Melbourne GP clinic and dumped in a park, exposing people’s most intimate personal history. The privacy breach also puts the patients at risk of identity theft because the files included their full name, address, date of birth,…
Website claims: Registered Filipinos voters’ sensitive data easily searchable
Things may have just gotten worse for Filipino voters whose details were hacked and exposed in a massive breach recently. Lara Tan reports: A website called wehaveyourdata.com claimed it carries the sensitive data — such as full name, complete address, and passport number — of at least 70 million registered Filipino voters. Last March, the website of…
UK: Kent police force fined for passing on personal details in domestic abuse case
The Information Commissioner’s Office issued the following statement today: A police force has been fined after sensitive personal details of a woman who accused her partner of domestic abuse were passed to the suspect. Kent Police handed the solicitor the entire contents of the complainant’s mobile phone. The force has now been fined £80,000 for what an…