Maybe one of the mantras of data protection should be “Curb Your Enthusiasm.” In 2009, Yankees fans enthusiastically threw papers out of the window during the team’s World Series celebratory parade through the Canyon of Heroes. The unshredded papers included files from A.L. Sarroff, Goldman Sachs, and the Bronx Supreme Court, as well as medical test…
Hannibal account leak proven as false
A few days ago we posted an article that made claims that over 1,000,000 account details had been leaked from a hacker using the handle Hannibal who claimed to leak the data in retaliation attack against anonymous hacktivist for operation Israel. IT has come to light today that this attack was never carried out, that the data was…
CHRISTUS St. John reports patient information breach
Through the law firm of Baker & Hostetler, CHRISTUS St. John Hospital notified the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office of a breach involving unencrypted patient information on a lost memory stick. The Houston-based hospital learned of the September 25th incident on September 27th, but a search was unsuccessful in recovering the drive, which contained the…
Answer to yesterday’s trivia question
The three countries that have reported breaches that affected their entire population (or almost the entire population) are Belize, Israel, and Greece.
Oak River Insurance notifies 2,700 after employee disclosed workers’ compensation claims information
Noah Buhayar of Bloomberg BusinessWeek reports another insurance company has suffered a breach: Oak River Insurance Co., a subsidiary of Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (A), asked clients to guard against identity theft after an employee released some of their personal information. The data are tied to about 2,700 workers’ compensation claimants who had spinal surgery…
VeriFi CCTV & VŠB-Technical University, Data Leaked
Today hacker @DARWINARE announce an attack on biotectix which left the site with a new news posting that had links to futher hacks and leaks and defacement mirrors. The two other sites that have been breached are VeriFi CCTV (www.verifi-cctv.com) & VŠB-Technical University (/www.vsb.cz/en/) and both are apart of the OpBigBrother operation. The leaks from each site have been…