Ken Alltucker reports: A former Southwest Ambulance employee took 581 patient records that included the names, financial and medical information from those customers. Southwest Ambulance recovered the records and notified affected customers about the breach of their private medical records. The Mesa-based company said it recently learned the employee took the records after a property…
Ca: Security breach of kids' info raises alarm
Jennifer O’Brien reports: A memory stick containing records of 4,500 kids has gone missing from a speech and hearing clinic at UWO, a thumb-sized example of how ever-smaller digital technology is heightening security risks. Included among the records on the tiny storage device are 11 years worth of names, addresses, phone numbers, birthdates, doctor information,…
Two suspects in Hyundai Capital hacking caught
Kim Tae-jong reports the latest in a breach involving Hyundai Capital reported previously on this blog: Police arrested two suspects Monday on charges of hacking Hyundai Capital’s database and blackmailing the company by threatening to release confidential customer financial information. A 40-year-old man, surnamed Huh, is thought to be the key figure who facilitated the…
MA: Computer access breach exposed UMass Memorial pay stub data
Lee Hammel reports: Personal pay stub information of some UMass Memorial Healthcare employees was subject to unauthorized access for five months. The organization learned March 10 that at 10 kiosks where employees could view their pay stub information, and also at shared workstations, subsequent users were able to access the information of previous users, according…
NZ: Policeman’s leak of data breached privacy law
Jared Savage reports: A police officer who leaked secret information to his wife in a bid to win a custody battle with her ex-husband also breached privacy law, a watchdog has ruled. The Herald revealed in February that an internal police investigation found Senior Constable Terry Beatson used the police National Intelligence Application (NIA) to…
In: Software ‘violates’ right to privacy
Menaka Rao reports: The Silent Observer, the innovative software that is supposed to have helped stem the menace of sex-selective abortions at Kolhapur, violates the right to privacy, said Dr Sanjiv Mani, the joint secretary of Maharashtra State Branch of Indian Radiology and Imaging Association (MSBIRIA). “We are absolutely against female foeticide. But this method,…