Croydon Advertiser reports: Croydon’s hospital trust mistakenly sent a patient’s sensitive medical information to the wrong person. And while being investigated for that data breach, Croydon Health Services NHS Trust “misplaced” its register of births for April 2009 to May 2010 for five months. The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has rapped the trust for the…
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Anonymous claims it brought down 200 Thai websites over British murders verdict
Amy Sawitta Lefevre reports: International hacking movement Anonymous said it attacked hundreds of Thai government websites over death sentences handed down to two migrant workers for the murder of two British tourists. […] Some rights workers say they believe police forced the two into confessing under duress. Police denied that. In a message posted on…
JP: Personal data of 112,000 may have leaked from Hokkaido University
Kyodo News reports: Hokkaido University said Wednesday that personal data of more than 110,000 students and graduates may have been leaked due to unauthorized access of its computer systems by unknown parties. The university believes a server at its career placement service center is likely to have been unlawfully accessed. The server contains personal data,…
AU: Google search puts NSW Medical Council on the wrong side of privacy laws
Paris Cowan reports: A NSW tribunal has ruled that the state’s Medical Council breached privacy laws when it published what it thought was a redacted PDF document on its website, but in doing so revealed the hidden identities of a doctor and her son to Google’s web crawling bot. In April, the NSW Civil and…
Privacy Class Actions are on the Rise in Canada
Ira Nishisato and Éloïse Gratton of Borden Ladner Gervais LLP write: There is a new trend in Canada towards privacy class actions being launched following a cybersecurity breach or an improper disclosure of personal information. Indeed, privacy class actions triggered by data breaches are growing in popularity in Canada, with between twenty and thirty privacy…
Numerous Cambodian sites defaced and hacked by Cyber TeamRox
Mech Dara and Daniel de Carteret report: A group of online hackers calling themselves Cyber TeamRox have breached several local websites over the past two days, including those of the Cambodian Navy, AEON Microfinance and Build Bright University. In what appears to be a random selection of targets, a hacker with the group using the alias Harith101,…