Several weeks ago, I blogged that I hoped Moore Medical Center in Oklahoma had its patient records backed up off-site. I was happy to read this week that they did. Clearly, patient care and availability of records is critical. But I wouldn’t go as far as Jeff Drummond did and declare that they “didn’t lose…
VA Systems Hacked From Abroad
Eric Chabrow reports: Since 2010, hackers from other nations, including China and perhaps Russia, have repeatedly breached Department of Veterans Affairs computers containing unencrypted data on some 20 million veterans, the chairman of a House panel said at a June 4 hearing. In at least one incident, hackers encrypted the unencrypted VA data, making it impossible for…
Anonymous Leaks Documents & E-mails Used by NSA for PRISM
Over the past week there has been huge tension building about the NSA and the way it gets Intel. Its come to light from main stream media that the NSA is said to be working along side some of the worlds biggest social networking websites to extract and mine data for Intel. This alone has caused…
Victorinox Breached, Data Leaked by @Ag3nt47
A hacker who uses the handle @Ag3nt47 has today announced a leak from the well known Swiss army knife maker Victorinox. Victorinox is credited for creating and making the well known Swiss army knife back 1884 by the current owners grand father. When my great-grandfather Karl Elsener opened a cutlery workshop to deliver a soldier knife…
Update on Lookitsme Breach, Statement and updates
Last week a hacker using the handle @st0rmyw0rm breached a site named Lookitsme and leaked data from its database. Tonight when looking i noticed that the breached website lookitsme.co.uk was redirecting to an offline.html which had a link to the facebook page of the website. On the page it appears that the administrator has announced on the…
Off to PLSC, posting will resume Sunday
I’m heading out to the Privacy Law Scholar’s Conference for a few days, and giving myself a break from news gathering and posting until I get back. On Sunday, I should resume posting and updating the blog. Cheers!