And for Tuesday’s edition of “How Not to Handle a Reported Breach,” we give you….. (drum roll)…. Boomerang Rentals. John Leyden of The Register provides a recap of what happened when customers started expressing concerns about fraudulent charges on cards they had on file with the video game rental service. Neil Bolt of PSU also…
UK: Mitochondrial DNA donors granted anonymity in draft legislation
Rachel Brown reports: Regulations to legalise and govern the use of mitochondrial donation techniques have been laid down before the UK Parliament. […] The draft regulations state that fertility clinics will require a new licence to offer the techniques. They also state that it will be up to the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority to decide whether a treatment can go…
In Ontario, hundreds of hospital privacy violations go unreported
Olivia Carville reports: Five staff members snooped into the medical records of 22 patients at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health last year. A clinician from St. Michael’s Hospital posted an inappropriate comment on Facebook about a patient’s behaviour during a healthcare procedure. While standing in line for pizza, a Toronto East General Hospital…
United, American airlines account fraud highlights hacker focus on travel industry
Jeremy Kirk reports: More than 20 travel-related websites have experienced data breaches in the past two months, according to a security expert who tracks the trade in stolen data. Data from those websites is being sold on underground forums by cybercriminals, said Alex Holden, CTO of Hold Security, a company that specializes in monitoring the…
Weak state servers breach causes mass identity theft in Turkey; over 50 million citizens’ identity info stolen
Hasan Bozkurt reports: The Presidency’s State Audit Institution (DDK) has revealed that the state failed to protect Turkish citizens’ ID information. The servers of the administration’s website has been easily breached, ID information of citizens have been stolen. These include the General Directorate of Population and Citizenship Affairs, the General Directorate of Land Registry and…
Law Offices of David A. Krausz, P.C. notifies clients that their Social Security numbers were on stolen laptop
David A. Krausz, whose personal injury law practice is in San Francisco , has notified clients about a breach: On January 6, 2015*, Law Offices of David A. Krausz, P.C. experienced the theft of a laptop computer that contained identifying client information including names, social security numbers and dates of birth. As a result of this incident,…