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…
UK council fined £70,000 following theft of highly sensitive data from employee’s home (updated with response from Council)
From the Information Commissioner’s Office: The London Borough of Barnet has been issued with a penalty of £70,000 for losing paper records containing highly sensitive and confidential information, including the names, addresses, dates of birth and details of the sexual activities of 15 vulnerable children or young people. The loss occurred when a social worker took the paper records…