The Hillingdon Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust in Middlesex has signed an undertaking with the Information Commissioner’s Office following a data protection breach. According to the documentation, the ICO was provided with a report on July 5, 2012 which stated that the trust had been informed that a local newspaper was in possession of 4 two…
Wichita City Vendors Site Hacked, Defaced and Thousands of Vendor Details Leaked
Wichita City, Kansas has fallen victim to hacking after its vendors sub domain was left defaced and data leaked. The site that has been hacked is for the city’s business who wish to sign up as vendors which has resulted in this database being filled with contact information and minor banking information and is a…
The West Australian News Site Hacked, Accounts leaked by @TeamBerserk
An Australian based news site has fallen victim to hacking after @TeamBerserk breached its servers and leaked data. The Site, The weste Australian News (thewest.com.au) which redirects to Yahoo is an local west australian based news site. The breach has been posted to pastebin and contains results from some basic SQL injections which have left the sites…
NC: CaroMont Health reveals security breach
Here’s another case where a breach was discovered by a routine audit. Michael Barrett reports: An unsecure email sent by a CaroMont Health employee has resulted in a possible security breach involving hundreds of patients’ personal health records. The email in question contained protected health information, including names, dates of birth, addresses, telephone numbers, medical…
Your PII were lost in the mail – Clinical Reference Laboratory (update1)
Clinical Reference Laboratory provides lab tests for Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance policy applicants. On September 17, they learned that a billing sent to MassMutual on September 6 with applicants’ names, dates of birth, type of lab test performed, and/or partial or full Social Security numbers had been damaged in transit with USPS and some pages…
AhaShare.com Hacked, Complete database with 190.000 User Credentials Leaked
Torrent users watch out, another popular torrent site has fallen victim to a simple breach which has now left over 190,000 users details leaked. The attack comes from a hacker who goes by the name Nairb who has been around for some time now leaking data frequently. The torrent site that has been breached is…