CBC News reports: Beaufort Delta Health and Social Services has hired two investigators to look into a potential data breach of patients’ confidential health records by employees at the Inuvik Hospital. The health authority says an internal audit showed a possible information breach of electronic records by a small number of its employees. Read more on…
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Colombia lawyers have sensitive human rights information stolen
There has reportedly been a burglary at a lawyer’s office where the target may have been sensitive information on human rights cases. ABColombia reports: The lawyers office of the Centre for the Studies for Social Justice –Tierra Digna’s was broken into during the night of the 19 January 2016 and a laptop containing sensitive information…
5 laptops stolen from Alberta Health Services office in Edmonton (UPDATED)
CBC News reports that five laptops were stolen from the Edmonton offices of Alberta Health Services on the evening of January 25. Alberta Health Services confirmed the theft but did not say what information was on the devices. Police say no arrests have been made and the laptops have yet to be recovered. All AHS would say…
NZ: Ministry investigates WINZ privacy breach
Radio New Zealand reports: The Department of Internal Affairs and the Ministry of Social Development are investigating a privacy breach after a Work and Income client accessed someone else’s information. Yesterday, the man told RNZ he was trying to access his WINZ account through government’s RealMe identity verification system and got another client’s details. The man…
In: Records stolen from patwarkhana
(Note: a patwarkhana seems to be a property registration office) Miscreants broke into the Jhuneer patwarkhana and tore records. They also broke open the room of patwari Ashok Kumar and stole documents late last night. […] As per details, the records, which were stolen, also included an assessment register, which contained the compensation record of…
Interior Ministry: Hackers’ attack against Russian banks in 2015 affected Visa, MasterCard
TASS reports: An attack against the Russian banking system made by hackers last year compromised Visa and MasterCard international payment systems, representative of the Cybercrime Department of the Russian Interior Ministry Alexander Vurasko said on Thursday. “The specificity of that [hackers’] ring was that they managed to compromise the largest international payment systems, including Visa…