The Local (Austria) reports: Personal data belonging to around 20,000 customers of the Vienna public transport company Wiener Linien has been stolen and published online. The Wiener Linien said the data, which included personal information such as names, addresses and email addresses but not payment data, was stolen by a former employee of its online…
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Security breach at Halifax and Bank of Scotland left account activities visible for up to six years (UPDATED)
Katie Morley reports: A security hole in Halifax and Bank of Scotland’s online banking facilities has put tens of thousands of customers at risk of fraud by leaving their financial activities visible to anyone. The glitch meant fraudsters were able to view accounts without using hacking devices as they would only need someone’s name, date…
Alberta Health System investigating alleged privacy breach by 48 Calgary employees
Erica Stark reports: At least one health care worker has been fired and dozens more are facing disciplinary action after allegedly improperly accessing a patient’s information, a claim that the nurse’s union is disputing. Forty-eight employees of Alberta Health Services are under investigation by the health authority and the privacy commissioner after a routine audit revealed…
Polish police detain unnamed computer hacker for hack of unnamed bank
A computer hacker who had infiltrated a Polish bank has been detained by the country’s police. The 31-year-old hacker allegedly broke into and stole data from the servers of an unnamed bank in Poland. “His arrest is the result of several months of work. Tomasz G. [name withheld under Polish privacy laws] had received several…
Ca: Prosecutor says hospital clerk should go to jail
Marco Chown Oved reports: She admitted to stealing more than 12,000 patient records from the maternity ward at the Rouge Valley Hospital and selling them for $1 a pop to financial firms, and for this Shaida Bandali should go to jail, an Ontario Securities Commission prosecutor said Tuesday. “Ms. Bandali essentially trafficked in the identities…
Aadhaar encryption protects privacy, will take eons to crack
Mahendra Singh & Rajeev Deshpande report: The Aadhaar system’s data collection and storage is strongly protected by sophisticated encryption processes to ensure biometric data does not leak either through private contractors running enrollment centres or at the central data servers that store the details. […] The encryption uses highest available public key cryptography encryption (PKI-2048…