Kyle Venktess reports: Johannesburg – The eThekwini Municipality, which comprises Durban, has shut down its e-services website after it was revealed on Thursday that it was potentially leaking personal data. Fin24 reported on Thursday that the KwaZulu-Natal municipality’s e-services website is susceptible to hacking as residents’ personal information such as ID numbers and other data risks…
White House names retired Air Force general as first cyber security chief
Dustin Volz reports: The White House on Thursday named a retired U.S. Air Force brigadier general as the government’s first federal cyber security chief, a position announced eight months ago that is intended to improve defenses against hackers. Gregory Touhill’s job will be to protect government networks and critical infrastructure from cyber threats as federal chief…
Your Life, Repackaged & Resold: Deep Web Exploitation of Health Sector Breach Victims
A paper by James Scott, Sr. Fellow, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology, and Drew Spaniel, Researcher, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology provides an overview of what’s going on on the dark web when it comes to patient-related information. You can access it here.
KS: Breach of Protected Health Information discovered at Decatur Health Systems
September 7 – OBERLIN, KS – On July 25, 2016, it was discovered that a CAT scan log binder detailing patient information was not in its typical location on the Decatur Health System (DHS) premises. The binder was believed to be taken from DHS premises between 5pm on July 22, 2016 and 7am on July 25,…
Protenus’ Breach Barometer for August is available
From Protenus, with whom DataBreaches.net collaborates in compiling monthly statistics for health data breaches: The number of breached records reported in August totals an unsettling 8,804,608. While this total does not exceed the staggering 11 million records we reported in June, it once again demonstrates that PHI breaches continue to be a huge problem for a wide…
33 Million Plaintext Passwords Stolen From QIP.ru Instant Messaging Service
Catalin Cimpanu reports: Hackers have stolen over 33 million user records from QIP.ru, an instant messaging service used predominantly in Russia. Softpedia received a sample of the data from HEROIC, a cybersecurity startup that protects users from hackers and cyber threats. The company claims to have received the data from a hacker using the Jabber ID [email protected]….