A hacker who uses the handle Xc0unt3r has recently posted a leak from another Automotive Giant, this time its Audi. Audi has been a majority owned (99.55%) subsidiary of Volkswagen Group since 1966, following a phased purchase of AUDI AG’s predecessor, Auto Union, from Daimler-Benz.[9] Volkswagen relaunched the Audi brand with the 1965 introduction of the…
Honda Belarus Breached, Accounts and Data leaked by @Ag3nt47
Earlier today hacker @ag3nt47 announced that they were sick of Honda ads (sponsored tweets) on twitter and that they would be hacked. > I HAAAAAAAAAAAAATE THESE TWITTER ADS!!!!!!!! FUCK YOU HONDA! YOUR GETTING HACKED! ~47 — Ag3ηт47 ♣ ʎʇIɹnɔǝS (@Ag3nt47) May 23, 2013 As it turns out they have actually carried out this breach on the official Honda Belarus…
A medical center wrecked by a tornado – what about patient records?
I haven’t seen any reports on it yet, but I hope that Moore Medical Center in Moore, Oklahoma had its patient records and other data backed up off-site, as the medical center was wrecked by the tornado that hit last week. And what about all of the paper records with PII or PHI that might…
Court date set for nurse involved in privacy breach
While employees in the UK can seemingly only face fines for exceeding authorized access or stealing health information, that’s not the case in Canada. CBC News reports that a former Eastern Health employee has pleaded not guilty to unlawfully obtaining health information. The incident has drawn a lot of media attention since it was first…
EEOC Gets Tough With Companies on Genetic Privacy
Sue Reisinger writes: Earlier this month the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission filed— and quickly settled—its first lawsuit accusing an employer of gathering illegal genetic information during a job applicant’s medical exam. The agency followed it up last Thursday by filing its first class action suit against another employer on similar grounds. The Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act went into effect…
UK: Man made redundant fined for stealing sensitive information
Infosecurity-Magazine.com reports on an insider breach where the consequences just don’t seem severe enough. The breach occurred on April 28, 2011, and was prosecuted by the Information Commissioner’s Office under Section 55 of the Data Protection Act: When he learned that he was being made redundant from his position as Community Health Promotions Manager at…