Elaine Edwards reports: The scope of a data breach involving confidential patient information is much wider than just Tallaght hospital in Dublin, the hospital’s acting chief executive has indicated. The hospital yesterday admitted there had been “unauthorised access and disclosure” of material sent to the Philippines for transcription. Its arrangement with Irish-based company Uscribe, which…
Flanders Music & Belgian jazz meeting data leaked by @NetBashers
Flanders Music, has been hacked by @Netbashers , the hack has resulted in a bit of data being leaked, this being usernames, clear text passwords, emails etc… Also Belgian jazz meeting has been hit and data leaked, same type of data as Flanders music. More and more sites keep proving they lack security and until they stop, this will continue daily. The leaks:…
How sweet it isn’t: Hershey notifies some web site users of a hack
A reader sent in this breach notification he received yesterday. Stay with it because although it starts out talking about the security of their recipes and how important accuracy is to them, eventually they get around to notifying people that their names, dates of birth, street and e-mail addresses, and passwords may have been accessed…
BSNL, India’s largest telco breached
Well this ones worth coming back so soon for…. We just found out about the breaches and details of a hack on India’s largest telecommunications company. this hack by @ThEhACkER12 contains such a simple a exploit anyone could do it. This exploit which is by far one of the most stupid one ( on behalf of…
Time for a break
Hi Everyone, The last few months have been chaos, with constant hacks and leaks its been a hard effort to keep up wit it all. Cyber War News is run and owned by a single person and while we do get alerted to a lot of whats going its very hard to do all the…
NHS security breach as patients' letters posted with security codes on envelopes
Martin Beckford reports: At least 216 letters have been posted with security codes for door entry and key safe boxes printed on the front of the envelopes. The confidential information is used by carers and nurses to gain entry to immobile patients’ homes. But it was wrongly added to records on the Personal Demographic Service, part…