The Bolton News reports that hospital notes with 25 patients’ names, age, medical history, specialist information, mobility, dietary requirement, hygiene, home circumstances and discharge plan were found in a street. The breach itself would be disturbing enough, but the citizen who found the documents experienced problems trying to report the breach – an issue to…
UK: Alzheimer’s Society data protection audit report – Executive summary March 2013
Curious about the scope and method of the ICO’s consensual audits for data protection? Take a look at this executive summary from a recently released audit of the Alzheimere’s Society.
UK Commonwealth Bank Site Hacked, Data Leaked
Tonight a hacker group using the handle @LatinHackTeamR have announced a leak of data from the commonwealth banks united kingdom branch (https://www.commbankuk.co.uk/). The announcement came about 2.30am Tuesday morning via twitter and the leak has been posted to anonpaste. > Commonwealth Bank of Australia DB #Leaked #LatinHackTeamReborn anonpaste.me/anonpaste2/ind… @cyber_war_news @ehackernews @thehackersblog — LatinHackTeam Reborn (@LatinHackTeamR) April 1, 2013…
United HomeCare Services notifies over 13,000 clients after laptop stolen from employee's car
Two recent updates to HHS’s breach tool left me wondering what had happened as I could find no media coverage: United Home Care Services of Southwest Florida< LLC,FL,”United HomeCare Services, Inc.”,1318, 1/8/2013,Theft,Laptop,3/27/2013,, United HomeCare Services, Inc.”,FL,,12299, 1/8/2013,Theft,Laptop,3/27/2013,, I contacted United HomeCare Services, Inc., a not-for-profit organization that provides services for over 5,000 frail and elderly…
First National Bank Texas Hacked, Social Security details leaked for #OpBlackSummer
Today the First National Bank Texas (https://www.1stnb.com/en/) has been hit by hackers who have leaked credentials and other information online. The attacks come from Al Qaeda electronic army and the Tunisian cyber army aka @TN_cyberarmy who have released it in the name of #Opblacksummer which is an operation that they are currently undertaking. > #prince of #AlQaeda message to first national bank…
NZ: Yet another privacy breach at Govt department
The government of New Zealand is getting a lot of bad press recently over breaches. Two breaches involving accidental disclosure of information (not reported on this blog because they did not involve any health information) were reported by the Earthquake Commission (EQC) and a recipient of the unintended disclosure. And now there has been another…