Chao Xiong reports: A young hacker reeling from the Philando Castile case and the acquittal of the officer who killed him broke into several state databases last year and boasted about his exploits. “An innocent man is dead, while a guilty man is free,” the hacker, known as “Vigilance” tweeted in part last year. The…
Information on potential data breach at PageUp may affect Australia Post
June 5 – Australia Post is managing an issue following advice from PageUp, a third party supplier that has helped us process external job applications since October 2016, that they’ve experienced a system breach. We are among a number of large organisations who have been using PageUp. PageUp has provided more information here: https://www.pageuppeople.com/unauthorised-activity-on-it-system/ At this…
UK: Data breach at medical practice: Shock and disgust as 150 patients affected
Stuart Anderson reports: Patients are outraged after learning a staff member at a doctors’ practice had been inappropriately accessing their medical records. Holt Medical Practice has dismissed the employee and written to the roughly 150 patients affected to let them know about the breach and apologise. The Information Commissioners Office (ICO) is now investigating after…
MyHeritage Genealogy Site Announces Mega Breach Affecting 92 Million Accounts
Catalin Cimpanu reports: Family genealogy and DNA testing site MyHeritage announced on Monday a security breach during which an attacker made off with account details for over 92 million MyHeritage users. In a statement on its website, MyHeritage said it became aware of the incident on Monday, the same day of the announcement. The incident…
Morinaga Milk customer data stolen after website hacking
JiJi Press reports: Morinaga Milk Industry Co. said Monday that personal data on up to 92,822 customers may have been stolen as its health food shopping website was hacked. Announcing the results of an external investigation of the unauthorized access case, the major Japanese dairy products maker said that credit card information belonging to up…
Cigna Error Revealed Customer Bank and Claims Data in Asia
Zachary Tracer reports: Cigna Corp. exposed private information including bank-account details of some customers in Asia due to a system error, the health insurer said. The company told Bloomberg it accidentally sent the information to some customers and health-care providers in early May. Sabrina Cheung, a Cigna spokeswoman, said that the situation affected a small…