CBC reports: A man in western Newfoundland says he has once again received confidential medical information from a health authority on his fax machine by mistake. David Simmons said he received patient laboratory test results to his company’s fax machine from Western Health on three occasions in 2012. This winter, he received test results from Central Health. Read more on…
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Hong Kong’s fast food chain Cafe de Coral admits accidental data leak
Hong Kong’s local fast food chain Cafe de Coral has accidentally leaked the personal details of members of its bonus-point program, it said on Friday. The company said the mistake was made last month in an email to a third party, which it did not identify, adding the personal details include names, phone numbers, email…
Follow-Up: How the University of Sydney Was Hacked
Back in February, we noted a hack involving the University of Sydney. A young hacker named “Abdilo” claimed responsibility for it and noted that he had exploited an Orsee vulnerability. Last week, Chris Howell of Honi Soit followed up on the breach: Closer to home, a reliance on security through obscurity seems to be partially responsible for…
Ca: Privacy Breach Involving Big Game Licence Applications
VOCM reports: There’s word of another privacy breach involving provincial government mail-outs, this time involving big game licence applications. The provincial government says it is aware of at least 15 instances where people who had applied for big game licences received their own application, and the application intended for another individual. There have also been…
China denies social security data spill
Sometimes a non-incident seems newsworthy. Today, I stumbled over this Xinhua report from April 23, responding to another report that I had never seen either, it seems: There has been no data breach of the social security network, a senior official said on Thursday following media reports. The personal information of tens of millions of…
Hack of RE/MAX Twin City Realty agent’s gmail account costs young home buyer $10K – and they refuse to make it right
Sean O’Shea reports that when a realtor’s gmail account was hacked, it cost a home purchaser $10,000 – $10,000 that the agent and her realty firm won’t compensate. The young home buyer, Kaitlyn DiMarco, says that after she purchased a home, she received an email – purportedly from her realtor – telling her that it would cost $10,000…