CBC News reports: The Vitalité Health Network is informing some patients their personal medical records were accessed without authorization. The privacy breach was discovered a year ago. A doctor with the Dr. Georges-L.-Dumont University Hospital Centre gained unauthorized access to the files using two hospital computers between Sept. 6, 2010 and Nov. 30, 2012, the letter signed by…
FL: 18,000 SWFL credit cards for sale on ‘Hackers’ Amazon’
Jim Spiewak reports: Thousands of stolen credit card numbers from Southwest Florida are currently being shopped online to whoever cares to buy them from hackers. It’s the information from the black magnetic strip on the back of your cards. “Instead of thinking, ‘It’s not going to be me,’ the odds are it is going to…
Memphis VA breach due to armed robbery
Well, I finally got more information on this breach involving the Memphis VA Medical Center. The Department of Veterans Affairs sent me their report on the incident, which occurred on December 1, when a Resident was the victim of an armed robbery in the VA Medical Center west parking lot. In the Resident’s possession at the…
Thesis on data breach disclosure wins XS4All prize
Telecompaper reports: Dutch ISP XS4ALL and the law firm Brinkhof have awarded their annual Internet Thesis prize to a masters student researching required disclosure of data breaches. The research found that any such legal requirement would likely not meet its objectives. The thesis was based on the number of disclosures in the US before and…
Ethical hacking organization hacked, website defaced with Edward Snowden’s passport
Rich McCormick reports: The EC-Council, a US professional organization that offers a respected certification in ethical hacking, was itself hacked this weekend. Passport and photo ID details of more than 60,000 security professionals who have obtained or applied for the EC-Council’s Certified Ethical Hacker certification are at risk after the breach, many of whom work in…
KS: Doctor's X-ray postings unsettling
Tim Carpenter reports: U.S. Senate candidate Milton Wolf posted a collection of gruesome X-ray images of gunshot fatalities and medical injuries to his Facebook page and participated in online commentary layered with macabre jokes and descriptions of carnage. Wolf, a Johnson County radiologist anchoring a campaign for the Republican nomination with calls for federal heath…