Express News Service reports: Proprietors of three small-scale IT companies were arrested on Saturday in connection with the data leak of students who appeared for the class 10 and 12 state board exams this year.The serious breach of data came to light recently as data companies were openly selling the district-wise details of nearly 8…
DPC receives over 1,100 reports of data breaches since start of GDPR rules
Elaine Edwards reports: More than 1,100 reports of data breaches involving people’s personal information have been received by the Data Protection Commission in the two months since a new EU legal regime came into force. The 1,184 reports to the commission mean data breach reports are significantly up on the average of 230 reported each…
State survey leads to Vermont Health Connect email breach
Mike Faher reports: A survey snafu last week led to the disclosure of some Vermont Health Connect and Medicaid customers’ email addresses, state officials said Thursday. In total, 127 people sent emails – some inadvertently and some not – to other health insurance consumers amid confusion about an online survey issued July 20 through the Department…
Mumbai: Ransomware hits Dadar CA’s office, demands payment in bitcoins for decryption
Mohamed Thaver reports: A day after a Navi Mumbai hospital and hotel became targets of a ransomware attack, cyber fraudsters encrypted data belonging to a Dadar-based chartered accountant and demanded money to remove the block on the data on Monday. While the incident took place on Monday, the complainant, realised that his data has been blocked…
Confluence Health discloses patient data breach after employee email account hacked
Jefferson Robbins reports: Confidential patient information may have been released in an email breach at Confluence Health, the Wenatchee medical organization said in a Saturday press statement. The information contained in an employee’s breached email account may have included “some patient information” including name and treatment, the press release said, but no financial information was…
TRAI Chief Tweets His UIDAI Number as a Security Challenge, and Promptly Gets Massively Pwned by @fs0c131y
No one could possibly have foreseen this: In a major embarassment for the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI), alleged personal details of its chairman R S Sharma were leaked on Saturday after he tweeted his Aadhaar number asking if it had made him vulnerable to any security risk. The TRAI chief shared his 12-digit Unique Identification Authority…