Here’s an insider breach from Japan reported by The Yomiuri Shimbun: A former executive of matchmaking service firm Web in Chiba Prefecture allegedly stole personal data of about 16,000 people who registered with the firm and tried to sell it to other matchmaking firms, it has been learned. Web said it plans to lodge a…
Top 10 Worst Data Losses or Breaches, updated
It’s been a while since I last revised my list of the largest breaches or data loss incidents worldwide, and the end of the year seems like a good time to look back at what may have been the worst incidents ever in terms of numbers. Remember when the stolen V.A. laptop made headlines in…
Opinion: Administration's shortcomings are not those of WDH
The editors of Foster’s Daily Democrat have an opinion piece in today’s paper that lauds Wentworth-Douglass Hospital for its fine medical care. Perhaps they’ve gotten some flak over their coverage over the breach and allegations of a cover-up. At the end, however, they write: So it is we admire the progress in medicine and surgery….
AU: Patient records accessible
Suellen Hinde reports: A person’s medical information can now be revealed to blood relatives – but not their spouse – without their consent. Doctors can tell a patient’s relatives they have a chance of developing a life-threatening or serious disease because they carry the same genes. New guidelines, released by the National Health and Medical…
Briton faces fraud charges over international debit card scam
Sophie Tedmanson of Times Online has more on the McDonald’s EFTPOS skimming scam in Australia, identifying the two men arrested as British national Elangovan Ganeshamoorthy and Canadian national Rugshanth Selvarajah: The men are alleged to have gone to more than 20 McDonald’s restaurants in the Perth metropolitan area, swapping the pin keypads on EFTPOS (Switch)…
Dentist’s Account Missing Nearly $400K
There have been some bizarre happenings down in St. John’s County, Florida this month. First Dr. Robert Thousand, an oral surgeon, reported that his phone lines were being tied up by a barrage of incoming 900-phone sex calls. Then another oral surgeon in the area, Dr. Bradley Cherry, reported the same problem with the phone…