Lokai Holdings is notifying customers who made purchases on mylokai.com between July 18, 2014 and October 28, 2014 that their payment card information (name, address, payment card number, expiration date, verification code, and the user name and password for customer accounts) may have been compromised. You can read their template notification here. The metadata for the breach that they submitted to…
Yet another California entity notifies patients of a laptop stolen from a car. #SHEESH
Oh, for pity’s sake (you can substitute more colorful language if you are so inclined). DJO Global has sent out a notification about the theft of a backpack from a DJO consultant’s car on November 7 in Roseville, Minnesota. The backpack contained a laptop computer that had password protection (but not any encryption). For some…
Australians may forgo online mental health help under new metadata laws
Ben Westcott reports: Innovative Australian online mental health providers could be deserted by clients under the government’s controversial new metadata laws. One of the developers of a widely used Canberra-based online mental health program said the new policy would affect the site’s ability to provide anonymity and freedom from stigma. But the Attorney-General’s Department said…
Judge disciplined for use of position to breach privacy
Jason Pan reports: A New Taipei City District Court judge has been disciplined by the Judicial Yuan’s Judge Evaluation Committee (JEC) in a recent probe. The committee ruled that judge Lin Yen-peng (林晏鵬) had abused his position to infringe on someone’s privacy by conducting searches into confidential judiciary files, arising from traffic litigation case three…
Physicians Skin & Weight Centers notifies patients after laptop and hard drive stolen from employee's car
It’s not up on HHS’s public breach tool nor on their own web site, but a copy of the following notice from Physicians Skin & Weight Centers was sent to the California Attorney General’s web site: To past and current patients of Physicians Skin & Weight Centers, Inc: On November 4, 2014, an employee’s vehicle was…
Verifying leaks uncovers “fake leaks”
Posted by @Cyber_War_News to Pastebin today: Today has been interesting, to say the least. Skipping all the bullshit lets get right to the main stinky shit. Anonymous twitter user @AnonymousGlobo announced earlier today this: https://twitter.com/AnonymousGlobo/status/547426305151860736 https://twitter.com/AnonymousGlobo/status/548537460691857408 Now after working with data leaks for years now it became clearly obvious to me that this was fake….