The London Borough of Southwark Council breached the Data Protection Act by misplacing a computer and papers containing 7,200 peoples’ personal information which were discovered in a dumpster earlier this year. In a press release issued today , the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) said the computer and papers were mistakenly left at one of the…
Whats going with cyberwarnews.info
Well put simply, we got screwed over 🙂 couple hundred later we back and hopefully on stable reliable hosting, but only time will tell. We had huge troubles with a few certain hosts over the past few days and it had pushed me to the point of not even wanting to look at a computer,…
Laptop stolen from Morris Heights Health Center contained middle school students' health info
The Morris Heights Health Center in New York recently experienced a breach that it reported to HHS. In a notice reproduced on their web site, they explain: Laptop computer stolen from MS 399 / MS 459 Bronx, NY, October 27, 2011– Morris Heights Health Center announced today that a laptop computer which may contain confidential information…
McDonald’s hat trick of the week: three cases involving insider breaches make the media
It looks like McDonald’s made a media hat trick this week in terms of dishonest employees and card fraud or ID theft. First, employees in Illinois and Washington were caught skimming customers’ debit and credit cards, and now Dave Gibson reports on a case from Georgia: On Wednesday, Eva Ramos, 36, a former McDonald’s restaurant…
PA: In the aftermath of a flood, a discarded computer leads to a breach notice
Steve Snyder reports in the Lebanon Daily News that Lebanon Internal Medicine Associates, P. C. of Pennsylvania has notified patients of a breach that occurred after a storm resulted in office flooding. The breach involved a computer that was used to support the practice’s on-site lab and had wound up under water following Tropical Storm…
Fuck FBI Friday, november 2011 Press Release and data dumps
Greetings Pirates, and welcome to another exciting #FuckFBIFriday release. As part of our ongoing effort to expose and humiliate our white hat enemies, we targeted a Special Agent Supervisor of the CA Department of Justice in charge of computer crime investigations. We are leaking over 38,000 private emails which contain detailed computer forensics techniques, investigation…