From the Napa Valley Register: Queen of the Valley Medical Center remains under investigation by the California Department of Public Health following last year’s patient data breach. The data breach became publicly known this past April, when a class action lawsuit was filed in Sonoma County against St. Joseph Health System, operator of Queen of…
CT: Update – Attorney General's investigation into MidState data breach over
Jesse Buchanan reports: State Attorney General George Jepson has ended an investigation into last year’s data breach at MidState Medical Center and hasn’t called for any further action. MidState informed the public in April of last year that 93,500 patients’ files were downloaded onto a hard drive at Hartford Hospital by an employee who took…
Personal Attacks Lead to roatpkz.com database being hacked and leaked by @TeamSt34m
A fairly well known and popular game site roatpkz.com has become victim to a personal attack that was aimed towards a few of the sites users. The attacks which comes from Encrypted or other wise known as @TeamSt34m was aimed at the site after ddos attacks were carried out toward encrypted and friends by members of…
Anonymous hack hands WikiLeaks TWO MILLION Syrian emails
Phil Muncaster reports: Hacktivist group Anonymous is claiming responsibility for an attack on the computer systems of the Syrian government and its evil overlord Bashar Assad thanks to which over two million emails ended up in the hands of whistle-blowing site WikiLeaks. As of last Thursday, the site began drip-feeding sections of the ‘Syria Files’…
NC: Judge orders political consultant to destroy all patient records obtained from candidate's office during campaign
An update to a case previously mentioned on this blog. Jordan Green reports: A Winston-Salem dentist who made an unsuccessful bid for Congress earlier this year went to court today to try to mitigate the damage of confidential patient information allegedly released to a political consultant whom he fired a couple weeks before the primary….
Back-Up Supplier Acronis Apologises For Data Leak
Tom Brewster reports: Back-up vendor Acronis has admitted some of its customers’ data leaked onto the Web, as it opens an investigation into what went wrong. Acronis said certain information from its knowledge base was opened up to everyone after the access control settings were reset to default. The back-up supplier said most of the content in…