Alana Schetzer reports that members of Australia’s Parliament got a lesson in using Outlook after what some thought was a “security breach” exposing members’ email and calendars turned out to be self-inflicted harm from user error: Department of Parliamentary Service acting secretary Russell Grove said there was no evidence of hacking and that the issue…
Stolen laptop contained data from Health Care for All and Boston Teacher’s Union
It just takes a moment. On July 17, an independent contractor for Database Designs Associates left his backpack in a relative’s nursing home room when he was asked by staff to step out for a minute. When he returned, the backpack was gone. In it was a laptop containing data from Health Care for All and…
Hack of Red Boat Advisor Resources server containing brokerage account applications
Lincoln Financial Securities Corporation reports that the virtual server of one of their independently-owned financial planning offices, Red Boat Advisor Resources, was accessed some time between January and early April of this year. In their letter dated August 30 to the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office, LFS’s attorneys write that the server held TIFF images…
Lahey Clinic breach: how seriously are some entities taking privacy and security?
Speaking of the risk of mobile devices… Lahey Clinic reports that on July 1, a physician lost a Blackberry (or it was stolen) at an airport in France. On it were patients’ names, dates of birth, Lahey medical record numbers, diagnosis, and procedure names/test results. The clinic did a remote wipe of all of the…
Insider breach at Quest Diagnostics results in notification to patients
Yet another insider breach – this one at New Jersey-based Quest Diagnostics. On August 17, Quest notified the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office that in late July, it became aware that an employee had forwarded certain e-mails to their home personal account. Included in the e-mails were patients’ names, addresses, dates of birth, Social Security…
Leaked Pentagon Documents Show planning of Naval bases
The united states Pentagon is a high profile target for hackers and others wanting to know whats going on within the American government. A well known hacker who uses the handle 0xOmar aka 0xO who was involved with the attacks on Israeli at the start of the year has leaked documents that they claim are from the pentagon. 0x0 has…