It seems that Bay Area Chiropractic Center LLC had a breach in 2015 that they first reported to Oregon this month. The breach occurred between June 1, 2015 and August 31, 2015, and was discovered on December 10, 2015. Affected patients were notified on December 22, 2015. Why they are first reporting this to Oregon is unclear to this…
Individual Convicted of an Offence under the Health Information Act
A woman was recently convicted of knowingly accessing health information of seven people in contravention of the Health Information Act (HIA). On Feb. 5, Denise Tourneur pleaded guilty to illegitimately accessing the health information of seven individuals on 44 separate occasions at the Kaye Edmonton Clinic where she worked. The situation stemmed from a breach discovered by…
United Nations World Tourism Organization hacked and forum members’ data dumped
The United Nations World Tourism Organization has reportedly been defaced, hacked, and forum data dumped by TeaMp0isoN. A TeaMp0isoN spokesperson alerted DataBreaches.net to the incident. The defacement was still evident as of the time of this posting. The forum dump contains 1524 records with forum member usernames, email addresses, and MD5-hashed passwords. In response to a inquiry…
Utah pulls warrants on Southern Utah websites linked to Ashley Madison hack
Tracie Sullivan reports: Utah authorities are investigating a website allegedly created by a Cedar City resident who published personal information of Southern Utah residents whose names were part of a 2015 website hack. According to four search warrants unsealed last week in 3rd District Court, a Facebook page and a website called AM Southern Utah “disclosed…
Thousands of apps running Baidu code collect, leak personal data: research
Jeremy Wagstaff and Paul Carsten report: Thousands of apps running code built by Chinese Internet giant Baidu have collected and transmitted users’ personal information to the company, much of it easily intercepted, researchers say. The apps have been downloaded hundreds of millions of times. The researchers at Canada-based Citizen Lab said they found the problems…
Site creates unauthorized searchable database of info of Jacksonville State University students, faculty
Seth Boster reports: Jacksonville State University officials learned Tuesday of a website that allows users to search for students’ personal information, including photos, addresses and phone numbers, all apparently stolen from JSU’s own database. The site allows visitors to search using students’ names to find photographs along with birthdates, student ID numbers, fraternity and sorority…