A hacker using the handle Algerian To The Core has posted a paste to pastebin in the last 24hrs that contains a list of sites they have hacked and defaced. The sites start of with a single Australian government website which appears to be a subdomain for the official land exchange program site by the Victorian government…
652 clients of Washington Department of Social and Health Services notified after contractor's laptop stolen
A contract psychologist for the Washington Department of Social and Health Services had his laptop stolen, the state disclosed today. Sunil Kakar, PsyD‘s laptop was recovered from a pawn shop on February 14, ten days after it was discovered it had been stolen, but according to the state, there is no way to be sure whether the…
Debunking claims that Mossad’s database was leaked
In a blog post on March 24, I expressed my profound skepticism over claims that Mossad’s database of agents had been hacked and/or leaked. Today, HuHu points me to a blog post in which the more likely source of the leaked data is revealed. The tagged email addresses in the leaked data suggest to HuHu…
FTC lawsuit against Wyndham moves to New Jersey
I haven’t read the court document yet, but Law360 alerts us that Wyndham won a round in court and succeeded in getting the FTC’s lawsuit moved to New Jersey from Arizona.
Documents containing personal information of patients left on Brooklyn sidewalk after medical supply company is shuttered
Todd Maisel, Kerry Burke, and Joe Kemp report: Stacks of paperwork containing personal information — including Social Security numbers — of patients were carelessly dumped on the sidewalk when a Brooklyn medical supply store was shuttered. The landlord said he was unaware of the papers’ sensitivity when he tossed the files outside Landmark Medical Supplies…
NY: Medical file probe widens
Bob Gardinier reports: The number of Samaritan Hospital private medical records illegally accessed by Rensselaer County Jail personnel has more than doubled and the period of the probe widened from three to five years, hospital officials say. Read more on Albany Times Union.