Kim Zarzour reports: ServiceOntario kiosks at Vaughan Mills and Promenade Mall were two of the four locations where a security breach prompted the government to shut down all 72 of the electronic booths across Ontario this week. The automated self-service kiosks at the two York Region sites, along with booths at Albion Centre in Etobicoke…
Potential class action targets Emory Healthcare over patient data breach
Emory Healthcare is the target of a potential class action suit seeking unspecified damages over the loss of 10 computer disks containing the personal and health information of hundreds of thousands of patients treated between 1999 and 2007. The suit seeks money damages and financial record monitoring for a class it estimates as including as…
Debt collection firm exposed patient data on P2P network – FTC
An FTC action over P2P file-sharing involves a debt collection firm for hospitals where the P2P issue allowed patient data to be exposed: The FTC has charged two businesses [complaint 1 | complaint 2] with illegally exposing the sensitive personal information of thousands of consumers by allowing peer to peer file-sharing software to be installed on their…
AU: Patient records in the gutter
John Corlett reports: Queensland Health is investigating how a number of highly sensitive medical documents were left lying in a Rockhampton street on Thursday evening. The Morning Bulletin became aware of the security breach after a Rockhampton resident contacted the paper with concerns the documents had not been recovered. The resident, who did not wish…
UGNAZI Claims to hacked, defaced and be in control of wawa servers
UGNAZI have made claims now that they have hacked a well known gas stores/truck stops WAWA (https://www.wawa.com). Their claims have come from their main twitter account @UG with the following messages. > UGNazi @UG https://Wawa.com —> DeFaceD —> https://i.imgur.com/z1lv8.png —>#Havoc —> #UGNazi****UGNazi @UG How much #havoc would be caused by shutting down all of the Wawa Gas pumps? Love having access to the gas…
5 Sites, including appleshopberlin.de hacked, defaced & data leaked by @dstardstar1
Twitter user @dstardstar1 who appears to have a fairly new twitter account has been posting attacks that they have claimed to do. All together 5 sites have been hacked, 3 of which have defacings and 2 have data leaks that contains user account information as well as other database information. The sites that got leaked are:…