From CBC News: BCIT [British Columbia Institute of Technology] has issued a warning to students and staff after one of its computers servers containing the personal medical records of more than 12,680 students was hacked. The Vancouver-area post-secondary school says a regular security audit determined an unauthorized third party accessed the server used by the…
UK: Welcome Financial Services Limited Fined £150,000 After Backup Tapes With Customer Contact Info Lost
From the Information Commissioner’s Office: Organisations are learning the hard way of the consequences of mishandling people’s information – and others need to heed the lessons the Information Commissioner, Christopher Graham, warned today at the launch of the ICO’s 2011/12 annual report. The Commissioner’s comments came as the ICO imposed a civil monetary penalty (CMP) of…
Update: Federal appeals court raps U.S. bank over shoddy online security
Jeremy Kirk reports the latest twist in a long-running lawsuit by a construction firm against its bank over fraudulent wire transfers: A U.S. construction company may stand a greater chance of recovering some of the $345,000 it lost in fraudulent wire transfers that it blames on poor online banking practices of its bank. Patco…
NC: Ex-candidate Peller says former campaign manager stole his dental patients' records
This sounds ugly. Michael Hewlett reports: Bruce Peller, who lost the Democratic primary for the 5th Congressional District seat, is accusing his former campaign manager, Christopher Church, of stealing information about 10,000 current and former patients from a computer at Peller’s dental practice. Church has fired back, accusing Peller of emailing him the information and…
300,000 Personal Details Leaked, 38 Sites Hacked For #ProjectDragonFly
@TeamGhostShell (TGS) leader, @deadmellox has just tipped us off to another huge leak that is on the same scale as the last chinese leak from TGS. The most recent attack is mainly on Taiwan based websites with some other sites being attacked to. The leak contains a fairly detailed message as well as links to individual pastes that contain…
Judge Bars Enforcement Of ‘Docs Vs. Glocks’ Gun Law
From The News Service of Florida: Saying it was based on anecdotal information and unfounded conjecture, a federal judge has barred enforcement of a 2011 state law that restricted doctors from asking patients about guns in their houses. U.S. District Judge Marcia Cooke ruled Friday that lawmakers had failed to make the case that gun…