Scottish Borders Council has appealed the £250,000 fine imposed by the ICO following a data protection breach in which employees’ information was found unshredded in supermarket recycling bins. Southern Reporter reports that the ICO has until November 2 to respond to the appeal and the decision will be made by a three-judge panel.
Update to Florida Hospital breach
Jason Geary reports that a former employee of Florida Hospital has pleaded guilty to accessing and selling patient information as part of a referral scheme. Read more on The Ledger.
Service Sells Access to Fortune 500 Firms
More great investigative reporting from Brian Krebs: An increasing number of services offered in the cybercrime underground allow miscreants to purchase access to hacked computers at specific organizations. For just a few dollars, these services offer the ability to buy your way inside of Fortune 500 company networks. The service I examined for this post…
1st Class Media Hacked, Client Credentials Leaked by @r0gu3An0n
An Anonymous hacktivist who uses the handle @r0gu3An0n has announced a dump of data that comes from a UK based web design SEO, database solutions and hosting company 1st class media (https://www.1stclassmedia.co.uk) and the attack has seen pretty much all of their high profile client websites being hacked and having data leaked. Some of the emails belong…
Monroeville official says UPMC, town broke health privacy law
Jonathan D. Silver reports: Monroeville’s assistant police chief has filed a complaint alleging that his own municipality, UPMC and the department’s former chief breached a federal privacy law governing release of medical information. […] The complaint, filed in August by Assistant Chief Steven Pascarella, claims that information about ambulance dispatches was being sent not only…
GOP lawmakers slam HHS over identity-theft risk in Medicare
Elise Viebeck reports: Leaders on a top House committee are pushing the federal Health Department to change the way it identifies people on Medicare. To reduce the risk of identity theft, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) must remove Social Security numbers from the Medicare card, the GOP lawmakers charged Monday. Read more…