Brie Zeitner of the Plain Dealer reports from Cleveland: More than 7,100 University Hospitals patients received notification by mail this week that their protected personal medical information was potentially exposed after a third-party contractor upgrading their computer system lost a hard drive containing physician office data. Someone stole the hard drive from the car of…
Hackers Take Limo Service Firm for a Ride
Brian Krebs reports: A hacker break in at a U.S. company that brokers reservations for limousine and Town Car services nationwide has exposed the personal and financial information on more than 850,000 well-heeled customers, including Fortune 500 CEOs, lawmakers, and A-list celebrities. The high-value data cache was found on the same servers where hackers stashed information…
Healthcare security standard launched to end data breach blunders
Dan Worth reports: A new security certification for the healthcare sector is aiming to provide a gold standard for those handling sensitive data. The HealthCare Information Security and Privacy Practitioner (HCISPP) standard has been put together by information security body ISC² as a means of providing an industry-wide qualification for those handling sensitive data. Read more on…
Peoples Trust Company hacked; Bank arranges for credit alert flags on customers’ accounts for 6 years
Someone kindly alerted me to a breach involving Peoples Trust Company in Canada. Here is the text of a notification letter they sent out, as provided by one of the recipients (hence, DataBreaches.net can assure its complete authenticity/accuracy): October 25th, 2013 RE: Important Notice Regarding Your Personal Information Dear First Name Last Name, As is…
Hundreds of Australian Websites Attacked for #OpAustralia By Indonesian Hackers, Threats Made To Australia
Update: 9.06pm, 9.32pm. AEST. Check below for response of contact from at least one of the defacers. Today has seen hundreds of websites owned and operated by Australian private businesses defaced by Indonesian hackers who are opposed to the recent news that Australia and NSA together had spied on Indonesia in the past, see here….
Hospital computer thefts put patients’ details at high risk
FOI is our friend. Greg Christison reports on data from 14 Scottish NHS boards: A Sunday Express investigation has found that around 80 items containing potentially sensitive data, including laptops, memory sticks, dictaphones and smartphones, have disappeared since January 2012. Read more on Sunday Express, but don’t expect to see numbers of unencrypted records with…