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Website claims: Registered Filipinos voters’ sensitive data easily searchable

Posted on April 21, 2016 by Dissent

Things may have just gotten worse for Filipino voters whose details were hacked and exposed in a massive breach recently. Lara Tan reports: A website called wehaveyourdata.com claimed it carries the sensitive data — such as full name, complete address, and passport number — of at least 70 million registered Filipino voters. Last March, the website of…

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Singapore slaps penalty on companies that failed to block data breaches

Posted on April 21, 2016 by Dissent

Jacob J reports: Singapore’s privacy watchdog has penalised 11 organisations for failing to protect the privacy of customers’ personal data. Karaoke chain K Box Entertainment Group was imposed with the heaviest fine of S$50,000 for failing to protect personal data of members on its platform under the Personal Data Protection Act (PDPA). Singapore’s data protection…

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CN: Death sentence over selling of state secrets

Posted on April 20, 2016 by Dissent

Li Qian reports: A Chinese man has been sentenced to death for leaking more than 150,000 classified documents to an unidentified foreign spy agency between 2002 and 2011, China Central Television revealed yesterday. Huang Yu, 48, was paid a total of US$700,000 for the information, CCTV said. It didn’t say when sentence was passed, or…

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Raleigh Orthopaedic Clinic settles HHS/OCR charges over failure to have BAA in place

Posted on April 20, 2016 by Dissent

HHS has announced another enforcement action. This one stems from an investigation into a breach noted on this site in May, 2013.  Raleigh Orthopaedic Clinic, P.A. of North Carolina (Raleigh Orthopaedic) has agreed to pay $750,000 to settle charges that it potentially violated the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) Privacy Rule…

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Feds made 5,670 privacy breaches last year; CRA worst offender

Posted on April 16, 2016 by Dissent

CTV reports: New documents show that the private information of tens of thousands of people was mishandled by the federal government last year, including hundreds of taxpayer files inappropriately accessed by employees of the Canada Revenue Agency, which was the worst offender. Read the detailed findings on CTV. I can’t help it. I’m reading the above…

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Turkish PM points finger at CHP’s İzmir branch for massive data leak

Posted on April 12, 2016 by Dissent

Hurriyet reports: Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu has accused a provincial branch of the main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) of leaking a database containing the personal information of nearly 50 million Turkish citizens, strictly rejecting the responsibility of any state institutions or ministries. Speaking live on Habertürk TV station late on April 11, Davutoğlu said…

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