There’s a follow-up to a breach disclosed in March by the Children’s National Medical Center. Tina Reed reports: Children’s National Health System is facing a potential class-action lawsuit following the hack of the personal data of up to 18,000 patients last year. Fardoes Khan, a longtime patient at Children’s, filed the suit after receiving a…
UK: Cambridgeshire Community Services NHS Trust undertaking: was it really necessary?
Cambridgeshire Community Services NHS Trust has had several breaches involving loss or theft of personal information. But it wasn’t the breaches per se that caught the attention of the Information Commissioner’s Office as much as the finding that the Trust was only requiring their employees to refresh Information Governance (IG) training every two years. As…
Ca: File breach at electronic spy agency prompts mandatory privacy training
Jim Bronskill of The Canadian Press reports: Canada’s electronic spy agency introduced mandatory privacy awareness training for all employees in March following an internal breach involving personal information. When Greta Bossenmaier became chief of the Communications Security Establishment in February, the ultra-secret eavesdropping outfit was under intense public scrutiny over alleged spying on citizens. But less than…
Hackers attack Planned Parenthood, release some employee data
William Turton reports: Planned Parenthood has been hacked. Late Sunday night, a group of hackers who oppose the healthcare nonprofit’s abortion practices released Planned Parenthood’s website databases as well as names and email addresses of the organization’s employees. The attack on Planned Parenthood follows a storm of controversy over the organization. Anti-abortion activists sparked the uproar…
Anonymous hacks census.gov; leaks non-sensitive info
Here’s another breach from last week that was sitting in the drafts folder because, well, I’m old, I forget. Census.gov was hacked by Anonymous, whose claimed motivation was “#TPP #TTIP” (Trans-Pacific Partnership, Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership). Ali Raza reports: A hacktivist group, which refers to itself as Anonymous, has claimed that the United States Census Bureau…
TV5Monde in chaos as data breach costs roll into the millions
Just because a hack is no longer in the news, it doesn’t mean it still isn’t having a major impact on its target. The TV5Monde hack was apparently much more damaging than some of us had imagined at the time. Doug Drinkwater reports: TV5Monde was very visibly hacked back in April when the French news channel, which…