From the Information Commissioner’s Office: Two London housing bodies breached the Data Protection Act after details relating to thousands of their tenants were discovered on an unencrypted memory stick left in a pub, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) said today. The memory stick was handed in to the police and safely retrieved at a later…
University of Arizona responds to email hack
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…