DA Morales reports on an email hack that didn’t involve any PII but serves as a reminder that you can have a long passphrase or great password, but that’s not enough: The computer security at the UA seems tough to beat, or so it seemed until last night. If you have ever had to set…
Pakistan Government personal data hacked by @NetBashers
The Pakistan government has had some workers personal information leaked online, this comes from @Netbasher from the leak data comes from pdma.gov.pk and consists of emails, names, numbers. Leak: https://pastebin.com/DD4xwG7H Few leaks from @CMDL1NE as well. Jacksonfumc.org https://pastebin.com/PpkdqKxs As-system.si https://pastebin.com/fqmN5Wat
Data Breach Bills Exclude Health Information
I’ve often disagreed with the Center for Democracy & Technology, but I laud them for pointing out the glaring holes in proposed federal data security and data breach notification laws that exclude health information. Harley Geiger writes: One of the negative side-effects of the sectoral approach the United States has taken to privacy regulation is confusion over…
Cn: DOH reveals massive patient data leak
Wow. When I read the headline to this story out of China and the lead sentence about “largest breach… ever,” I expected it would be a P2P leak or something. It wasn’t: Taipei Municipal Wan Fang Hospital yesterday came under fire for leaking patient documents and personal information in the largest breach of privacy ever…
Gavea Investments hacked and defaced by @NetBashers
Gavea Investments, a asset company in Brazil and regulated by the Brazilian Central Bank, @NetBashers have gained access to their website and left them a funny poem. Defacing : https://www.gaveainvestimentos.com.br/default.html One two, Net-Bashers are coming for you. Three four, we kicked the server out the door. Five six, we wrecked your shit. Seven eight, its to damned late. Nine ten, don’t make…
(Follow-up) Kaiser employee ID theft suspect pleads no contest
C. Johnson reports: A benefits clerk, who was busted while about to undergo liposuction surgery using fraudulently-obtained credit card information from one of her victims, has pleaded no contest to identity theft. The Sacramento County District Attorney’s Office says Mia Garza, 31, was accused of stealing personal identification information from more than 400 Kaiser Permanente…