David Murray reports: Confidential medical records detailing names, addresses and injuries of soldiers have been found scattered on a busy Brisbane street. The sensitive documents were blowing along Leichhardt St at Spring Hill near the base of an orthopaedic specialist treating the soldiers. Read more on The Australian. The orthopedist was not named. Hopefully there…
Mandatory data breach notification law proposed in Canada
Nestor E. Arellano reports: With the Conservative government’s privacy reform bill sitting untouched after being introduced about two years ago, New Democractic Party MP Charmain Borg has introduced a private member’s bill that that would make it mandatory for organizations to report data breach incidents. Bill C-475, Borg’s proposed amendment to the federal Personal Information Protection and Electronics Document…
ABC Australia confirms data breach, target was old micro-site
Late last night or early this morning, how ever you want to look at it, ABC Australia was breached and heap of personal information had been posted online. It appears that since then, according to SCmagazine the ABC Australia spokeswomen Sally Cray has confirmed that this data is in fact from ABC and that a old "micro-site" or side site…
80+ Sites hacked by Sniper 399
A hacker using the handle Sniper 399 has posted a paste to pastebin that contains a list of 80+ sites that they have defaced. The paste was posted about 10 AM AEST time and contains 88 sites but is titled as 200 sites so its anyone’s guess where the other 112 sites went to. The defacement contains…
Further 5GB+ Release from Bank of America by Anonymous
Anonymous today have released further data from the Bank of America which comes in the form of a major update to the main data leak of 400+ emails and a huge list of people they are watching with a partnership with TEKsystems. The most recent release was announced by @AnonymousIRC not to long ago and contains well…
Interesting Bank of America data leak (updated)
Michael Kelley and Geoffrey Ingersoll report: Anonymous hackers have released 14 gigabytes of information allegedly related to Bank of America and a web intelligence firm it hired to spy on hackers and social activists last year. Emails detail how employees of TEKSystems actively watched hacker forums and social media sites for anyremotely relevant pieces of “intelligence.” Read more on Business Insider. Cyber War…