In a message that undoubtedly should send shudders down the spines of those involved in the security of UK census data, the hacking collective known as LulzSec posted a message on Pastebin yesterday: Greetings Internets, We have blissfully obtained records of every single citizen who gave their records to the security-illiterate UK government for the…
Tables Turn for Dentist Who Shared Patient Info
Tim Hull has more on a court decision in California mentioned last week on this blog: Federal medical-privacy laws do not preempt California’s own rules against doctors disclosing patient information to debt collectors, the state Supreme Court ruled. The unanimous court revived Robert Brown’s longtime crusade to hold dentist Rolf Reinholds accountable under California’s Confidentiality…
(update) Debit card breach affects several hundred card holders
The numbers of fraud reports related to the Michaels Store breach continues to climb. Jack Moran reports: Federal authorities investigating a major data breach at craft retailer Michaels are fast becoming aware of its impact on debit card holders in Oregon. During the past week, local police agencies from Portland to Medford have fielded several…
US Department of Agricultural database exposed by uberleaks
Uber leaks joins the boat It would seem that the anti security operation has a new player; uberleaks, they just released a sheet of database information from the us department of agricultural, SNAP ed center. they released the link to the paste site with the database shortly after stating it they had it;
Stolen Foothills Nephrology laptop contained info on 1280 patients
When I saw “Spartanburg” in the news story, I thought this was an update on the Spartanburg Regional Medical Center breach reported on this blog previously, but the SRMC breach occurred March 28, and this incident occurred in April: GoUpstate.com reports A laptop stolen from a Foothills Nephrology employee’s vehicle in late April contained patient…
Tango down Serious Organised Crime Agency
Tango down SOCA; confirmed Serious Organised Crime Agency has been knocked offline by LulzSec {Gallery} the tweet which was posted by lulzsec was; Tango down – soca.gov.uk – in the name of #AntiSec followed by a few tweets which read; Later we’ll unleash fire on multiple targets. That last one is down depending on which area you’re from….