Christopher Cadelago reports: California’s health insurance exchange wants to collect and use data on a raft of sensitive customer information, from race and ethnicity to sexual orientation and gender identity. How officials will tackle the task without running afoul of privacy laws remains an open question. A policy on collecting demographic characteristics – potentially far…
Official Vodafone Iceland Breach Contents Report & Breakdown
Earlier today the official Vodafone Iceland was breached, left defaced and a heap of data leaked from its servers. This report breaks down the contents of each of the files which contains over 70,000 user personal details as well as a heap fo administrator details and Icelandic equivalent of social security numbers. The leak comes…
Official Vodafone Iceland hacked and defaced with 77,000 accounts leaked
View full report of this leak here Today a hacker who uses the handle @AgentCorporatio has just announced a leak of data from Iceland’s official Vodafone server and site (vodafone.is). The leak has been announced from twitter just a short time ago and it has also resulted in a defacement of the main websites page and…
CA: Active-duty Army reservists victims of identity theft; 2 men arrested
Adolfo Flores reports: Two men were arrested in connection with the identity theft of U.S. Army Reserve officers who were on active duty in Afghanistan, authorities said. Mauro Cortez, 25, and Rigoberto Cortez, 29, were arrested Wednesday after the Los Angeles County Identity Theft Task Force served a search warrant at a home in Pomona, according to the…
Ca: Western Health privacy breach charge going to trial
Gary Kean reports the update to the Western Health breach noted previously on this blog: There will not be a speedy disposition of the criminal charge against the former Western Health employee accused of inappropriately accessing medical records on the job. The matter involving Donna Colbourne of Corner Brook was scheduled to be dealt with…
Your phone is talking behind your back — to your doctor
Kate Andries reports: Your phone knows everything about you — how much you walk, talk and what level of Candy Crush you’re stuck on — but soon it could be spilling secrets to your doctor. More and more physicians are prescribing apps that help track their patients’ illnesses through information collected by their smartphones. “[The…