Elaine Edwards reports: Irish Water is investigating a data breach after it sent bank details relating to a number of individuals to the wrong people. The issue emerged after one man tweeted yesterday that the utility had sent his bank information to his landlord. Paul Keogan, from Dublin, said his landlord had phoned him on Sunday…
Flowers Hospital fraud case update: Defendant seeks to withdraw guilty plea, claims others involved
Dothan First reports: Just days before he is scheduled to be sentenced on identity theft charges the man arrested for stealing patient’s personal information from Flowers Hospital is seeking to withdraw his guilty plea. Karmarian Millender claims he is not the only one involved in the scheme. He also claims to be a victim of…
Indian Health Service addresses data breach by contract physician
The U.S. Department of Health & Human Services’ Indian Health Service (IHS) has been responding to a breach by a contract physician that affected patients at three IHS facilities. The IHS, an agency in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, provides a comprehensive health service delivery system for approximately 2.1 million American Indians and Alaska Natives. On…
First National Bank website exposed private information
Jan Vermeulen of MyBroadband reports: First National Bank’s online card tracking facility exposed the names, ID numbers, phone numbers, and delivery addresses of clients to anyone who knows what the reference number for the tracking service looks like. These reference numbers are sequential, so if you know one it is very easy to guess others…
KR: Personal data of 7.45 million Pandora TV users accessed by hackers
Yikes. How did I miss this one? On October 15, Yonhap News reported: South Korea’s video sharing web operator Pandora TV Co. said Wednesday more than 114,000 items of personal data were leaked from its webpage while hackers accessed some 7.45 million items of private information. […] The leaked data includes user names, names, encoded…
NZ: Legal firm divulges private files
Phil Kitchin reports: A lawyer’s practice used clients’ sensitive files as recycling paper for photocopying – and posted out hundreds of pages of private and confidential details about their cases. The details, sent to a former client who requested a copy of her own file, include names and addresses of people involved in suppressed court…