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…
Visa’s fines are punitive, not compensatory – Genesco
More on Genesco’s lawsuit over Visa’s fines following a data breach: Jeffrey Benzing reports that Genesco is arguing that Visa’s own internal documents show that they view breach fines as penalties and not compensatory. Genesco argues that the fines are therefore unenforceable under California law. Read more about their legal argument on Main Justice. Previous…
CORRECTED & UPDATED: Texas Health notified patients promptly following discovery of breach
CORRECTION: In response to the original post, below, I received the following e-mail from Texas Health: Good morning. Just an FYI that we did notify these patients within the 60-day timeframe. The problem is that in our efforts to keep the press release at the top of our news page and easy for people to…