Lynzi Deluccia reports: The GE engineer accused of stealing secret information from his work was back in court on Thursday. Official court documents show the Niskayuna man is in charge of other companies in China that use the same turbine technology as GE. A 10-page affidavit reveals Zheng was a master at taking the information,…
Was LabMD Hacked? A Key Issue in Lawsuit Against FTC Lawyers
Craig A. Newman of Patterson Belknap writes: Did LabMD, the now-defunct cancer testing company, expose sensitive patient information with shoddy data security practices as U.S. regulations have charged, or was the company victimized by a private forensics firm extorting it for business – raising the troubling question of whether the entire case against LabMD was…
EXCLUSIVE: Creditmate.in developer’s goof left 19,000 consumers’ credit reports unsecured
By Dissent Doe and Lee Johnstone On July 27, an independent researcher known as “Flash Gordon” (@s7sins on Twitter) contacted DataBreaches.net and Lee Johnstone to report that during a routine keyword search on Google, he had found numerous credit reports from Indian consumers exposed. Identifying the owner of the database was not easy in this…
Forum post claims breach of 850k users’ information; leak from recruitmilitary.com?
Lee Johnstone reports on a leak involving a non-profit organization that tries to match employers with job seekers who are veterans: Today a user has posted a new thread to a known forum that makes claim of an breach of over 850,000 US military officers personal information. The user who goes by the name booloop…
Joint Base Charleston notifies airmen of possible breach of personal information
Harve Jacobs reports: A mistake made at a medical clinic caused a potential breach of personal information of current and former airmen at Joint Base Charleston. The base says folders of paper records were improperly created at a base clinic. A former airman says he received a letter from the 628th medical group mentioning a “potential…
NSW: ‘Disturbing’ privacy breach revealed: Over 1,000 NSW Health medical records abandoned in derelict building
Ange McCormack reports: More than 1,000 confidential medical records have been left on the floor at a derelict former aged care facility operated by the New South Wales Government. The privacy breach, uncovered in a triple j Hack and ABC News investigation, is believed to be one of the largest of its kind in Australian…