Ashley Argoon and Kathryn Powley report: Ivanhoe Grammar School has come under further fire after identifying alumni in an email about alleged historic sex offences against a student. In a potential breach of privacy, the posh school revealed the private email addresses of 1000 past students to whom it wrote offering counselling services after veteran…
UK: Parole Board for England and Wales signs undertaking
From the Information Commissioner’s Office: An Undertaking to comply with the seventh data protection principle has been signed by The Parole Board after the potential loss of a prisoner’s parole dossier. Whilst there is a possibility that the dossier may have been securely destroyed in this case we do not consider that the Parole Board…
OR: Advantage Dental reports data breach affecting 151,000
Tara Bannow reports: Advantage Dental, a Redmond-based provider that serves low-income patients at more than 30 clinics in Oregon, announced Monday an intruder had breached its internal membership database in late February and accessed information on more than 151,000 patients. Compromised data included names, Social Security numbers, birthdates, phone numbers and home addresses, but not…
13 acquitted in case of Turkish hacker group Redhack
Today’s Zaman reports: A total of 13 suspects accused of acting with the Turkish hacker group redhack were acquitted by an Ankara court on Monday. Murat Yılmaz, the head of the Ankara branch of the Contemporary Lawyers Association said while speaking to the media on the ruling, “The court ruling proved wrong the claim that…
WA: Student hacker disables hundreds of email accounts
KOMO News reports that an unnamed high school student who attends Oak Harbor High School is in trouble for disabling hundreds of email accounts throughout the Oak Harbor School District. “This individual inappropriately obtained passwords to certain accounts,” said Kellie Tormey, Oak Harbor School District. A somewhat surprising aspect to the report is a statement by an…
Data Breaches Hit Half of America: Verizon Report
David Morrison writes: Almost half of all American consumers (45%) said data security breaches have compromised their personal payment information or that of a household member, according Verizon’s 2015 PCI Compliance Report. The document suggested credit unions and other card issuers might suffer damage from card security breaches until consumers start using payment cards with embedded…