Canadian Press reports: Alberta’s information and privacy commissioner says 49 health workers unlawfully viewed and used information about a Calgary patient and her daughter in 2015. The investigation started after the Alberta Health Services privacy office was notified of a breach of information by the emergency department manager at South Health Campus. The patient’s file…
New NSA leak exposes Red Disk, the Army’s failed intelligence system
Zack Whittaker reports: The contents of a highly sensitive hard drive belonging to a division of the National Security Agency have been left online. The virtual disk image contains over 100 gigabytes of data from an Army intelligence project, codenamed “Red Disk.” The disk image belongs to the US Army’s Intelligence and Security Command, known…
Insiders Accused of Stealing Personal Data From Homeland Security
Nicholas Fandos and Ron Nixon reports: It was an audacious scheme: an attempted inside job at the office of a federal watchdog agency, where the cops, the authorities said, became the robbers. Three employees in the inspector general’s office for the Department of Homeland Security stole a computer system that contained sensitive personal information of…
Shipping firm Clarksons braces for data leak after refusing to pay hacker
Rob Davies reports: Shipping company Clarksons is bracing for a tranche of private data to be released, after refusing to pay a ransom to a hacker who staged a “criminal attack” on its computer systems. In a statement to the stock market, the world’s largest shipbroker said it was working with specialist police and contacting…
Massive Malaysian telco data breach might be an inside job
A. Azim Idris reports: Investigators in Malaysia have suggested the massive personal data leak of 46 million mobile phone accounts was linked to a subcontractor of the Southeast Asian country’s very own Internet regulators. On Monday, Inspector-General of Police Mohamad Fuzi Harun said investigators were tracking down the owner of an e-mail account which could…
Hackers could get even nastier in 2018: researchers
PhysOrg reports: After a year marked by devastating cyber attacks and breaches, online attackers are expected to become even more destructive in 2018, security researchers said Wednesday. A report by the security firm McAfee said the ransomware outbreaks of 2017 offer just a taste of what’s to come as hackers develop new strategies and “business…