Andrew Colley reports: It was “one little oops” that led Telstra to expose over 800,000 customer records on the web last December. That was the way Telstra’s security operations specialist Scott McIntyre described the mystery cause of the massive privacy breach at an IT security event on Wednesday, getting in ahead of a heavily delayed…
PA: Patient information breach confirmed
Dan Kelly and Ron Devlin report: Reading Hospital’s medical records system was breached recently by an employee who copied sensitive patient information and used it for training purposes, hospital officials confirmed Thursday. Medical test results, diagnoses, prescribed medications and other data legally classified as Protected Health Information on 12 patients was made public without the…
Mich. HIV contractor violated privacy policy, investigation finds
A government contractor in Michigan violated the state’s data security policies in its handling of thousands of pages of information relating to people living with HIV, a state investigation has found. The investigation concluded, however, that no state or federal laws were broken and that no individually identifiable private health information was disclosed to the…
AU: Fish, chips, and a side order of card fraud
Ben Grubb reports that the number of data breaches in Australia is at least double what is reported to the government because there is no mandatory breach notification law. And not surprisingly, many of the breached entities are small businesses. Read more on Sydney Morning Herald.
Government of Anguilla Hacked By #UGNazi
In whats been a busy week for hackers attacking all different governments has claimed yet another one. This times its the Government of Anguilla website and the attacks have been carried out by @UG and dumped on pastebin.com The leaked data contains server/network information for www.gov.ai and contains just over 100 user and administration accounts all of…
3178 Accounts leaked from djartsgames.ca
A Canadian based games website djartsgames.ca has fallen to hackers who have leaked its users database on to pastebin. The leaked data comes from djartsgames.ca contains 3178 emails/password combos, some of which are administration accounts and others are just user accounts. djartsgames.ca was started in 2008 as a base for facebook games so no doubt a lot…