Jeff Outhit reports: Police are investigating after a student hacked an internal computer system at a Kitchener high school, forcing other students to consider changing all their social media passwords. This includes passwords for Facebook, Twitter, Google Apps, and other personal accounts held by any student who has accessed those personal accounts from a school…
Category: Non-U.S.
AU: Five people charged for defrauding Medicare of more than $500,000 after police found thousands of stolen patient records
Martha Azzi reports: Five people have been charged with using fake and stolen medical records to defraud more than $500,000 from Medicare. Patient records illegally taken from a string of medical clinics in Sydney’s southwest have been used to lodge thousands of fraudulent claims, police say. Read more on Daily Mail.
JP: Ezaki Glico reports possible customer data breach
JIJI reports: Confectionery maker Ezaki Glico Co. said Monday that personal data on users of its online shopping site may have been compromised following unauthorized accesses. Up to 83,194 sets of personal data may have been stolen, including 43,744 that contained credit card information, according to the firm. Ezaki Glico is investigating the incident through…
Sask. health region employee who ‘snooped’ on 900+ records won’t get job back
Micki Cowan reports: A Saskatchewan X-ray technologist won’t be getting her job back after she was fired for “snooping” on hundreds of patient records without due cause, a breach of the Health Information Protection Act. A recently released labour arbitration decision shows that the employee — who claimed she was looking at the records for “educational purposes” — has been denied a…
Update on Canadian Data Breach Regulations: Consultation
Timothy M. Banks of Dentons writes: Innovations, Science and Economic Development Canada has issued a consultation paper asking Canadians what should be included in new data breach regulations that will be made under the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act(PIPEDA). The consultation will close on May 31, 2016. Following this consultation process, the Canadian Government will publish…
Finland probes ‘extensive’ data breach at Foreign Ministry
Kati Pohjanpalo and Kasper Viita report: Finland’s Security Police is investigating the infiltration of the Foreign Ministry’s data network by spies, Foreign Minister Erkki Tuomioja said. “The data breach was an extensive attempt to spy on an entire network,” Tuomioja told reporters here Thursday after broadcaster MTV3 reported the ministry’s network was the target of…