This week hacker using the handle @security_511 has leaked data from two churches already and today they have just announced a third leak. The leak comes from an Australian church named Lutheran Church Australia (https://lca.org.au/) and has been posted to pastebin. The leak contains 1,484 user accounts with user names,email addresses and encrypted passwords as well…
What You Need to Know About Patient Matching and Your Privacy and What You Can Do About It
Adrian Gropper, MD is Chief Technical Officer of Patient Privacy Rights. He writes: Today, ONC released a report on patient matching practices and to the casual reader it will look like a byzantine subject. It’s not. You should care about patient matching, and you will. It impacts your ability to coordinate care, purchase life and disability insurance, and…
Neiman Marcus Missed 60,000 Alerts As Hackers Stole Credit Card Info
Ben Elgin, Dune Lawrence, and Michael Riley report: The hackers who raided the credit-card payment system of Neiman Marcus Group (NMG) set off alerts on the company’s security systems about 60,000 times as they slunk through the network, according to an internal company investigation. The hackers moved unnoticed in the company’s computers for more than eight months, sometimes…
PA: Company claims info was stolen
Joe Pinchot reports: A Pine Township company has filed a civil racketeering and conspiracy suit alleging an ex-employee downloaded company information, including customer lists, software instructions and internal drawings, and gave the information to his new employer, a competing firm. Pine Instrument Co.’s ex-employee, Gordon Baker, said he downloaded the information while still employed by…
Study shows recycled computers give away personal information
A study commissioned in Australia by the National Association for Information Destruction (NAID), a non-profit, data protection watchdog agency, has found significant amounts of personal information left on recycled computers. For the organisations recycling their drives, this is a data breach problem. For individuals, their most private information is at risk. The NAID-ANZ Secondhand Hard Drive…
Study shows recycled computers give away personal information
A study commissioned in Australia by the National Association for Information Destruction (NAID), a non-profit, data protection watchdog agency, has found significant amounts of personal information left on recycled computers. For the organisations recycling their drives, this is a data breach problem. For individuals, their most private information is at risk. The NAID-ANZ Secondhand Hard…