Bahia State in Brazil has come under fire form hackers from team brazilian cyber army @TeamBCA. The website that has been breached is the Ministry of public work which holds information, news and other related resources related to Public works in Bahia. The attack has been announced on twitter from the @TeamBCA account and was posted to pastebin. > Brazilian Cyber…
University of Virginia Medical Center reports lost handheld device held patients' personal and medical information (updated)
The University of Virginia Medical Center has posted a notice of a breach: The University of Virginia Medical Center and Continuum Home Infusion are committed to protecting the personal information entrusted to us by our patients and potential patients referred to us for care. Regrettably, this notice is regarding an incident involving some of that…
Anonymous Set Sights on Censorship Giant Canipre
Over the past few years Internet censorship has become a really hot topic, one that is touchy to talk about, one that has many mixed messages about the do and don’t. One of the company’s behind the push for Internet censorship is Canipre(https://canipre.com) and they have now become targets of anonymous hacktivist who are angry over the fact that Canipre…
135 Sites breached as #OpLeak pushes on
A few weeks ago we did a small post on a new operation that was being carried out by a Xlegionhackers member. The operation was dubbed #Opleak and was originally aimed at leaking over 100 databases to raise awareness in lack of security. How ever since then they have changed that and are now aiming for over 1000 sites….
Did ADPI disclose enough in its notification and has it done enough for patients?
One of the things that happens with a blog like this one or DataBreaches.net is that an organization discovers that I’m covering their incident and starts checking my blogs to see what I’m writing. At the same time, I’m checking other sites to see what they’re saying. This week, I’m obviously focused on the ADPI…
FL: Volunteer at Jackson North used smartphone to steal data
Jackson North Medical Center in North Miami Beach is part of the Jackson Health System. It appears they, too, have suffered an insider breach for tax refund fraud purposes. John Dorschner reports that a volunteer at the medical center used a smart phone to take pictures of patient records: The volunteer’s misdeeds unraveled in a…