a hacker going by the name SEN has dumped a few emails online, the accounts are from an unknown source and reason but seems to be a result from a database extraction of some sort. The leak contains emails and clear text passwords. Remember to use CTRL+F for quick search to be sure your email has not…
El Paso County Community College hacked, defaced and data dumped by @DestructiveSec
El Paso County Community College has been targeted due to pure lack of security, @DestructiveSec has been busy away in the servers taking what they wish snooping around and leaving a mess for them to clean up as well as a defaced website. The attack is due to lack of security and because they have failed to fix the exploits this…
Lawsuit against Tufts Medical Center for privacy breach dropped
A lawsuit against Tufts University Medical Center and one of its doctors, mentioned previously on this blog, has been dropped. Chelsea Conaboy reports: A woman who sued Tufts Medical Center and a doctor at the hospital, alleging that they violated her privacy by faxing medical records to her workplace, has agreed to drop the case….
IE: Personnel files found dumped in industrial estate
Ralph Riegel reports: Files containing confidential information on private security staff were discovered in a box left unattended in an industrial estate. An investigation by the Data Protection Agency (DPA) is now under way into the discovery of files at Frankfield Industrial Estate in Cork. The files were removed by Cork County Council officials yesterday…
Pointer: A to Z of Healthcare Data Breaches
Theodore J. Kobus III has a nice little A to Z of Healthcare Data Breaches on Data Privacy Monitor.
Wells Fargo manager, Best Buy clerk charged with stealing identities of 9 people
Sergio Bichao reports: Two former employees of a Wells Fargo bank in Warren and a Best Buy in Union are facing charges of stealing the identities of nine people to open fake credit cards and ring up more than $29,000 in purchases. Tinaud Garcon, 21, of Union in Union County, and Thomas Alexis, 30, of…