Gerri Peev: Banks have attracted more customer complaints than any other group over allegations of mishandling sensitive information, the privacy watchdog reveals today. Lenders routinely lost, released or wrongly recorded personal data, the Information Commissioner warned in his annual report which detailed 603 complaints. But the true scale of privacy and data breaches could be…
AU: Telstra mail bungle breached Privacy Act
Josh Taylor reports: Telstra breached the Privacy Act by sending out tens of thousands of letters to the wrong addresses, according to the Australian Privacy Commissioner, which led to the personal information of about 60,300 Telstra customers being sent to the wrong people. In October last year, the Australian Communications and Media Authority and the…
MI: Laptop missing from Hurley Medical Center contained patient data
The other day they were claiming that there was no personal data involved, so I didn’t even mention the incident on my blogs. What a difference a day makes. Matt Franklin reports: Personal information of almost 2,000 Hurley Medical Center patients may be in the wrong hands this afternoon because the hospital says it is…
Washington Post reports breach of job seeker data (updated)
Elinor Mills reports: About 1.27 million user IDs and email addresses belonging to people looking for employment on The Washington Post jobs website were affected by a data breach in June, the newspaper has said. “We discovered that an unauthorised third party attacked our Jobs website and was able to obtain access to certain user…
Florida court’s tango down by Operation Orlando, Anonymous
Anonymous has been going flat out with operation Orlando taking and keeping websites offline for hours at a time. The 4th of july was a big day for the operation that seen a lot of government websites crash. Today we have seen Florida courts website go offline. Screen shots:
BPM Data base leaked by p0keu in the name of #AntiSec
BPM is the world’s largest event dedicated to DJing, electronic music production and club culture has had its whole database leaked via twitter. This attack comes from https://visitbpm.co.uk and is in the name of anti security otherwise known as #antisec. This attack has been leaked by @p0keu via twitter,document contains quite a big dump of plain text…