Yonhap News reports that penalties imposed by financial regulators following data leaks may really hurt card issuers’ bottom lines this year: The three credit card firms hit by recent massive data leaks may lose some 100 billion won (US$93.6 million) in revenues due to a three-month business suspension ordered by the country’s financial regulator, data…
UK: Durham County Council reassures pensioners after their information goes missing when a memory stick is lost
Here’s one I missed from earlier this month. Mark Summers reports: Council chiefs say security was not breached when a computer memory stick containing the personal details of thousands of vulnerable pensioners was lost. Clients of Durham County Council’s Care Connect warden service have been advised to set a new code on their key safe…
United Nations Internet Governance Forum Hacked, 3,215 Accounts Leaked
Today hacker collective @deletesec announced a breach and leak of data on a United nations based website. The site is the Internet Governance Forum and it appears to be registered to Chengetai Masango and is also the Programme and Technology Manager at United Nations Secretariat for the Internet Governance Forum. Its purpose is to support the United Nations Secretary-General…
MCCCD IT Employees: ‘District knew about security concerns’
Within hours of DataBreaches.net reporting litigation against Maricopa County Community College District (MCCCD) and statements by employees claiming that MCCCD is attempting to cover up its lax security by blaming employees, two (other) employees have started publicly revealing more details. Greg Argos of CBS5 (KPHO) reports that the two have come forward with documents to support their…
IN: St. Vincent Hospital notifies 1,100 patients that stolen laptop contained protected health information
St. Vincent Hospital in Indianapolis is part of St. Vincent Health. A statement uploaded today and linked from the hospital’s homepage says: St.Vincent officials sent letters to approximately 1,100 patients informing them that a laptop connected to an electroencephalogram (EEG) machine and functioning as a medical device was detached and stolen from the hospital on…
University of Maryland discloses data breach involving 309,079 records (Update 2)
Letter from President Loh February 19, 2014 Dear students, faculty, and staff of the University of Maryland (at College Park and Shady Grove): Last evening, I was notified by Brian Voss, Vice President of Information Technology, that the University of Maryland was the victim of a sophisticated computer security attack that exposed records containing personal…