Mark Hachman reports: A Pulse employee discovered a security hole in Oink on Friday, which allows anyone to download personal information belonging to another, just by knowing their username. PCMag was able to confirm the breach the same way Cristina Cordova, a former Google employee now working in business development for Pulse, did: by downloading…
Man pleads guilty to fraud after stealing thousands of X-rays
Speaking of stolen x-rays, here’s another case in the news this week. Andrew Seymour reports from Canada: A Toronto man stopped by police in a U-Haul truck filled with nearly 54,000 stolen X-rays was after the silver in the medical imaging scans, and not the personal information printed on them, a prosecutor told a judge…
Ca: Private info of 4,600 B.C. students leaked
Darcy Wintonyk reports: The leak of private information for thousands of accounting students was the result of an “unfortunate error,” according to the Certified General Accountants Association of B.C. An email sent to 2,300 CGA students on Tuesday accidentally contained an Excel spreadsheet containing personal data of about 4,600 of its students. The spreadsheet included…
Christian Teen Forums Hacked And Accounts Leaked
The hacker who uses the handle Le0n B3lm0nt has been on a mission this week sql injection many exploitable sites, mostly forums and one of the most recent ones is from a Christian Ten forums website. The site, which the name explains all is a forum for christian teens and the leaked data comes in the…
AL: 1,000 X-rays stolen from Huntsville Hospital by vendor impersonator
Stealing old x-rays for the silver is still a problem. Keith Clines reports that in this case, the x-rays contained only the patient’s name, date of birth and medical record number for somewhere between 125 and 175 patients.
Univ. of Tampa notifies over 30,000 students and staff that their Social Security numbers were exposed on the Internet
The University of Tampa has issued a breach notice: On March 13, 2012, the Office of Information Technology (IT) learned that due to a server management error, a University of Tampa data file containing sensitive information was publicly accessible for a certain period of time. There is no evidence the file has been used maliciously….