A nursing home in County Antrim has been fined £15,000 for breaking the law by not looking after the sensitive personal details in its care. An investigation by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) found widespread systemic failings in data protection at Whitehead Nursing Home at the time of a data breach. The breach came when a member of…
IN: Orleans Medical Clinic Patient Information Breach
Orleans Medical Clinic Patient Information Breach Orleans Medical Clinic was recently the victim of a hacking incident that resulted in inappropriate access to certain information about the Clinic’s patients. On or about April 17, 2016, we became aware of suspicious activity involving one of our computer servers. We initiated an investigation and learned that our…
Ca: Calgary apologizes for privacy breach of Workers’ Compensation Board files
CBC News reports: Registered letters are being sent to 3,716 victims of a privacy breach after WCB claim information was released due to “human error,” say city officials. In a release issued late Wednesday afternoon, Donald von Hollen, acting chief security officer for the city’s corporate security, said “numbers, names, incident dates, details regarding the nature…
The Secret World’s Forums Have Been Breached And Passwords Cracked
Alex Walker reports: Funcom, makers of The Secret World, The Longest Journey, Age of Conan and Anarchy Online, announced earlier this morning that their forums have been compromised and user data exposed. In an announcement on their website, Funcom announced that the data breach for the four games above included encrypted passwords, user names and e-mail…
Do you or a family member have a Health Savings Account? If so, read this.
If you have a health savings account (HSA), you may be one of many people who treat it like a savings account or an inactive checking account where you do not check your balance or withdrawals frequently. But your HSA may be an attractive target for fraudsters, and you need to protect it. DataBreaches.net has heard that…
Four states’ fishing and hunting licensing sites hacked (update3)
The databases of four state wildlife sporting licensing sites have been hacked, according to an individual who claims to be the hacker. On Monday, an individual calling him/herself “Mr. High” posted the following on an AlphaBay forum: I just hacked four websites and reported the security holes. Two of these were government websites. All of these…