Eric Chabrow reports: The Department of Veterans Affairs’ inspector general substantiated allegations left on a departmental hotline last summer that IT contractors without appropriate security clearances improperly gained access to the VA’s electronic health record system. Belinda Finn, assistant inspector general for audits and evaluations, wrote in an audit dated July 27, that contractor personnel improperly shared user accounts…
IE: Tallaght Hospital admits data breach
Tallaght Hospital in Dublin has now admitted that patient medical records have been the subject of unauthorised access and disclosure. In a letter to hospital consultants on outsourcing the transcription of patient medical reports and letters for GPs, the hospital has also conceded that while it was the policy not to identify patients, this policy…
Korean national ID numbers spring up all over Chinese Web
Robert Lee reports: The number of leaked Korean social security numbers available online is likely to skyrocket as a massive social network hacking attack left more than three quarters of the nation exposed. A quick search using the keywords, “Korean social security numbers,” on Baidu, a Chinese Internet search engine, showed about 1.39 million results….
Italian Police release contains some worrying emails
Recently we have seen the Italian police suffer a big leak with lots of data being dumped on a range of download sites. the leaks come in the name of Anti Security, they come from the Italian police and have so far contained a bit of information.The most recent release, which has now had over…
More sites hacked by STK and @CMDL1NE
STK has been busy, recently dumped a fair few database’s on pastebin, and @CMDL1NE has been even more busy dumping raw database details one after the other on pastebin, from this we are seeing a huge increase in breached websites that have low or no security, pretty sad isnt it? STK Leaks Just two leaks…
TN: Gallatin Credit Card Fraud Linked To Computer Hacking
Here we go again – law enforcement decides that they can withhold information from consumers to protect a business. The Secret Service said more than 100 cases of credit card fraud reported in Gallatin was the work of a criminal enterprise that hacked into a local business computer. They are not releasing the name…