T. Rees Shapiro reports that Fairfax County School District has had yet another breach involving student data: Personal information for hundreds of Fairfax County public school students was mistakenly posted on the school system’s Web site, exposing their school identification numbers, birth dates, home addresses and phone numbers in what parents described as a breach…
82% of Health IT Executives Report Their Organizations Are Not Prepared for the Unexpected
Some intriguing statistics in this survey. I’ll have to find time to reach the actual study before I can comment, though. MeriTalk, a public-private partnership focused on improving the outcomes of health and government IT, today announced the results of its new report, “Rx: ITaaS + Trust.” Healthcare IT executives agree trusted IT solutions play…
KR: Insurance firms leak personal data
Kim Rahn reports: Financial authorities have found customer information was leaked from not only credit card companies but also insurance firms. The Financial Services Commission (FSC) said Monday it found Prudential Life Insurance provided clients’ personal information to outsiders by granting them the right to access the firm’s intranet. […] According to the FSC’s recent…
South Korean card firms suspended over data breach
I remember the cheers at school football and basketball games, “We don’t mess around – HEY! We don’t mess around – HEY!” I thought of that while reading a news story this morning with a follow-up to a breach affecting 15-20 million South Korean credit card holders by a contractor’s employee: South Korean authorities have…
French telecom Orange discloses data breach affecting 800,000 customers
Swati Khandelwal reports: The French multinational telecommunication company announced recently, it was targeted by unknown hackers on 16th January 2014, who allegedly gained access to the accounts of up to 800,000 customers of Orange website. According to a report published on the PCImpact website, the company warned their customers in an email that their Client Area website orange.fr was…
NullCrew attack on Bell Canada was SQL injection and Bell knew weeks ago – NullCrew (update 2)
NullCrew has responded to Bell’s claim that it was a third-party supplier who got hacked by providing DataBreaches.net with more details about the hack and their conversations with Bell alerting them to the breach. In an interview today, NullCrew revealed that they had access to Bell’s server for months, and had disclosed that to them…