Taobao, the Chinese equivalent of eBay, was reportedly hacked in October 2015, but it doesn’t seem to have made U.S. news. Marbridge Consulting writes: Police in Zhejiang province recently convened a press conference to announce that a group of hackers obtained information pertaining to approximately 99 mln accounts on Alibaba Group’s C2C e-commerce site Taobao….
Lawmakers Roast the Education Dept.’s Top Technology Officer Over Ethics and Data Security
Kelly Field reports: Angry lawmakers hammered the Education Department’s chief information officer, Danny A. Harris, at a hearing Tuesday, accusing him of ethical lapses and failing to secure the agency’s “vulnerable” information systems. “Cybersecurity for the federal government is a matter of quality management and effective leadership, not just tech,” said Rep. Will Hurd, a Texas Republican…
NASA Denies Hackers Hijacked Its Drone
There’s an update to a previously claimed hack involving NASA. Thomas CLaburn reports that NASA is investigating a claimed hack, but denies that its drone was hacked: “Control of our Global Hawk aircraft was not compromised,” said Beutel. “NASA has no evidence to indicate the alleged hacked data are anything other than already publicly available…
Ca: Tax agency staffer gone after taxpayer data leaks to CSIS
Alison Crawford reports: No one’s saying much about what happened and who’s been held accountable for several breaches of taxpayer privacy at the Canada Revenue Agency. The privacy breaches came to light last week in the annual report of the watchdog for CSIS, Canada’s spy agency. The report described how intelligence officers, repeatedly and without a warrant,…
IE: Potential data security breach at NTMA
BreakingNews.ie reports: The National Treasury Management Agency has notified the Office of the Data Protection Commissioner of a potential data security breach. A spokesman for the NTMA says the incident occurred yesterday as State Claims Agency records were being removed from the NTMA premises for archiving by the NTMA’s off-site document storage provider. During the…
Hawai‘i Medical Service Association notifying members after mailing error exposed protected health information
The Hawai‘i Medical Service Association (HMSA) is notifying about 10,800 members that it mistakenly sent care management letters to incorrect addresses. The misrouted letters did NOT contain financial information, Social Security numbers, HMSA membership numbers, birth dates, claims information, or medical histories. The letters did include member names and steps they could take to identify…