Joseph Aldridge reports: The principal of a small Northland school who posted private student information online says it was done “in error” and he removed it from the school website as soon as he was informed. Kaeo Primary School’s Paul Barker said he mistakenly posted a “teachers only” version of student achievement information on the…
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Pakistani cosmetic surgery and hair transplant center's client database hacked and dumped (updated)
Over on DataBreaches.net, I’ve struggled to keep up with all the hacks that dump PII on the Internet. But there’s one from yesterday that involves patient data that should be mentioned here. A hack of vaguscosmetics.net (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3) reveals 1,973 2,555 patients’ information. Here are the data fields from the dumped database:…
UK: ICO levies two monetary fines to councils for e-mail gaffes that exposed sensitive information
The The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has served monetary penalties to North Somerset Council and Worcestershire County Council after staff at both authorities sent highly sensitive personal information to the wrong recipients. The news comes as the Information Commissioner is pressing for stronger powers to audit data protection compliance across local government and the NHS….
Press Release: Virus Attacks on Computer
Shri Sachin Pilot, the Minister of State for Communications and Information Technology informed Lok Sabha today in a written reply to a question that virus is a ‘malacious code’ computer software programme. With the innovation of technology ‘malicious code’ are getting highly sophisticated and complex. Due to proliferation of Information Technology (IT) in all areas worldwide, there is rise in the virus attacks and…
Fairly big dump of accounts from globeclassroom.ca
The Canadian Foundation for Economic Education has had one of its websites hacked and fair big amount of users information leaked online. Its not common we see many attacks come from Canadian websites so this makes me why why it was done, which is most likely due to lack of security. The leak contains usernames, emails and other personal information….
Inspector General Tells National Credit Union Administration to Beef Up Security and Privacy Protections
The National Credit Union Administration (NCUA) is the United States independent federal agency that supervises and charters federal credit unions. Claude R. Marx reports: The NCUA needs to do a more thorough review of how it protects the privacy of its computer users and data, according to a report by the agency’s Office of Inspector…