Peter Hall reports: Police on the trail of two missing laptops and a gold necklace followed it to the Montgomery County home of a self-described computer hacker who claims responsibility for what could be one of the largest virtual currency heists of all time, court documents say. Theodore Price of Hatfield told a local detective…
Category: Of Note
210 govt. websites found displaying personal info, including Aadhaar
Yuthika Bhargava reports: About 210 government websites were found to be displaying personal information, including name, address and Aadhaar number, of beneficiaries, the government said on Wednesday. “…It was found that around 210 websites of Central Government, State Government Departments, including educational institutes were displaying the list of beneficiaries along with their name, address, other…
Vendor Breached Your Company Data? Sorry, You’re Still Liable
Rhys Dipshan writes: Call it the summer of vendor security mishaps. In June, a data firm hired by the Republican National Committee inadvertently exposed the personal information of almost 200 million American voters by misconfiguring an Amazon cloud server. A month later, Verizon’s customer service vendor NICE Systems made the same mistake and exposed data…
Hong Kong’s Privacy Commissioner Welcomes the Enactment of the Apology Ordinance
(14 July 2017) The Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data, Hong Kong (“Privacy Commissioner”) Mr Stephen Kai-yi WONG welcomed the passing of the Apology Bill by the Legislative Council yesterday (13 July). Mr Wong said, “The enactment of the Apology Ordinance will generally help to protect persons who wish to make an apology without fear of…
Veterans Administration responds to Freedom of Information request; releases breach reports
So what did we miss because the Veterans Administration stopped posting their monthly breach reports to Congress on their web site? DataBreaches.net filed a Freedom of Information request on June 7, and the VA has responded by providing all of the requested monthly reports for the period May, 2016 – June 7, 2017. As an…
Bupa IPMI notifies customers of insider breach; former employee claimed to have 1million records for sale on dark web
Over on Hot for Security, Graham Cluley beat me to the punch on reporting an insider breach involving Bupa. You can begin by watching Bupa’s public notice, and then read Graham’s report for some more information. Of note, he reports: In all, around 108,000 international health insurance policies are said to be affected. An email…