Brian Krebs has updated his investigation into the Adobe hack that was originally reported to have affected 2.9 million customers. In a post on KrebsonSecurity.com today, Brian writes that at least 38 million are affected. But just this past weekend, AnonNews.org posted a huge file called “users.tar.gz” that appears to include more than 150 million username and…
Privacy watchdog investigates lost data from Toronto eye clinic
Alex Ballingall reports: Data storage sticks that contain personal and medical information on about 18,000 patients at Toronto Western Hospital’s Donald K. Johnson Eye Centre have gone missing, prompting an apology from the facility’s chief doctor and an investigation by the Ontario privacy watchdog. In an Oct. 17 letter to patients, ophthalmologist-in-chief Dr. Robert Devenyi said a…
Government ‘Mining’ Social Media for Information on Health Behavior
Elizabeth Harrington reports: The National Library of Medicine (NLM) is “mining” Facebook and Twitter to improve its social media footprint and to assess how Tweets can be used as “change-agents” for health behaviors. The NLM, a division of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), will have software installed on government computers that will…
After investigative report reveals database compromise, Dun & Bradstreet notifies consumers (updated)
Last month, Brian Krebs revealed that SSNDOB, an identity theft service, operated a botnet that tapped into some of the biggest databases in the country to get the information they sold. One of those firms was Dun & Bradstreet: Two other compromised systems were located inside the networks of Dun & Bradstreet, a Short Hills,…
Patients' medical records go missing from University Hospital of North Staffordshire
Up to 70 sets of patients’ notes are going missing at Staffordshire’s biggest hospital every day, it has emerged. The shock findings come despite a new £60,000 digital system brought in to store them more safely. Bosses at the University Hospital of North Staffordshire admit that at any one time between 40 and 70 of…
ZA: Hospital ‘loses’ crash victims’ files
Nondumiso Mbuyazi reports: Medical records of three Field’s Hill accident survivors are missing from King Edward Hospital. The survivors of the horrific Pinetown truck accident were being treated at the hospital for weeks after the September 5 accident that claimed the lives of 24 people. However, they were told last week that their medical records…