Jennie Russell reports: Alberta’s privacy commissioner is investigating whether Alberta Health Services properly safeguards the public’s personal health information after CBC News revealed the electronic system housing it was vulnerable to outside security threats. A 2018 assessment by an external security firm found several “significant risks” with the health authority’s administration of the Alberta Netcare…
India’s state gas company leaks millions of Aadhaar numbers
Zack Whittaker reports: Another security lapse has exposed millions of Aadhaar numbers. This time, India’s state-owned gas company Indane left exposed a part of its website for dealers and distributors, even though it’s only supposed to be accessible with a valid username and password. But the part of the site was indexed in Google, allowing…
Healthcare hotline: Millions of medical advice calls exposed in Sweden
John Leyden reports: Calls recorded by a Swedish national health service hotline were stored on an unencrypted system that was publicly accessible to anyone with an internet connection, it has emerged. An estimated 2.7 million phone calls were discovered to have been left open by an unprotected NAS (network attached storage) system, and were accessible…
MN: Data breach hits Dunn Brothers, Chino Latino, several metro businesses
KARE reports: Customers at Dunn Brothers, Chino Latino, Sebastian Joe’s and several other metro businesses may have had their credit cards compromised last month. North Country Business Products, Inc., announced the security breach on Monday. They said a “recent data security incident may have resulted in unauthorized access” to debit and credit card information. Read…
AU: Embattled LandMark White shares drop 10.6 pc after data breach
Carolyn Cummins reports: Shares in LandMark White have plummeted 10.6 per cent to a four-year low after the valuer resumed trading following a massive data breach, which resulted in details of about 100,000 home loan customers being leaked. A number of its customers, including the major banks, suspended the company following the breach. The company said it…
MalwareTech’s Judge Seems More Sympathetic to Hutchins about the Intent of Prosecution than the Law
emptywheel writes: JP Stadtmueller, the judge who will preside over MalwareTech (Marcus Hutchins’) case, last week denied his pretrial motions to get his post-arrest interview and all the charges of his indictment thrown out. So right, that’s not great news for Marcus, or even good news. But to get a better understanding of how the case is…