Jan Vermeulen reports: A hacker who identifies with the Anonymous collective Team Hack Argentino, and goes by @TobitowTHA on Twitter, has claimed responsibility for defacing over 200 South African websites. Tobitow posted links to the sites on Twitter, indicating that the defacement was in support of Operation Africa (#OpAfrica). Read more on MyBroadband.
VA: Fourth time’s the charm for fired UVA nurse
In most cases, I’d want a medical center to discipline or terminate an employee who snooped in a patient’s records. But here’s an unusual case where a medical center improperly fired an employee who had been authorized by the patient – who was both an employee and her ex-spouse – to look at his records….
GA: 911 dispatcher fired for sharing caller’s personal information on Facebook
Dan Kennedy reports: A Catoosa County 911 dispatcher was fired Friday morning for sharing on Facebook the private information of at least one person who called 911. Holly Dowis was terminated Friday following an internal investigation into her conduct while on the job. A Channel 3 investigation found Dowis sent a screenshot to Facebook friends…
Aide To Stephen McNeil, Nova Scotia Premier, Broke Privacy Laws: Report
Michael Tutton and Michael MacDonald report: The office of Nova Scotia Premier Stephen McNeil broke privacy laws when chief of staff Kirby McVicar publicly released sensitive medical information about a former cabinet minister, the province’s privacy commissioner says. McVicar resigned Nov. 24 after stating in several media interviews that Andrew Younger had a brain tumour…
MN: Former Dakota County Worker Pleads Guilty to Breaching Privacy of Lawmakers
File this under the “small breach, big harm” category, as the media got hold of the story, which created significant problems for the lawmakers involved. Thomas Berry, a former employee of the Dakota County Water Resources Department, pleaded guilty Thursday to a misdemeanor charge involving violating the privacy of two lawmakers. Berry admitted improperly accessing and…
DOJ Hacker Also Accessed Forensic Reports and State Department Emails
Joseph Cox reports: …. In a previous interview with Motherboard, the hacker who dumped details about 20,000 Federal Bureau of Investigation and 9,000 Department of Homeland Security employees claimed he had also downloaded around 200GB of internal government files. A number of other hacked files have been obtained by Motherboard, and include apparent digital forensics reports from…