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We focus on the latest news surrounding data breaches, leaks and hacks plus daily internet security articles.
A hospital has reportedly sent the wrong medical records detailing the miscarriage data of another patient.
Liverpool Women’s Hospital were supposed to send a patient her medical records after she suffered a miscarriage at the hospital. As well as sending her own records, they somehow managed to send the medical data of another patient with the hospital notes as well.
The medical data breached in this incident included the patient’s name, address, data of birth, NHS number and notes about treatment they had received at the hospital for a miscarriage
Self-driving cars and the cybersecurity risks and the data breach risks they pose: an unanswered question…
Thieves can already break into cars by hacking remote-entry / keyless entry systems, and security researchers have proven before that the onboard computers of cars can also be hacked, leaving them free to control various parts of a vehicle.
As we move – at speed – toward self-driving cars and lorries being on our roads very soon, the issue of self-driving cars and the cybersecurity risks / data breach risks they pose must be addressed; especially with Tesla – one of the pioneers of self-driving cars – previously being hacked themselves!
Jaguar Land Rover have been subject to an employee data breach that has reportedly affected hundreds of staff.
The personal and sensitive employee data for hundreds of agency staff at the firm’s Solihull site is understood to have been shared around the workforce as the carmaker sets to embark on a job redundancy program that may affect thousands of employees.
The data breached includes payroll information and personal data about days of absence, and even employee disability information.
The healthcare sector is at risk of ‘grunt bot’ attacks, which are one of many innovations hackers have come up with to save themselves time and give themselves the ability to hack their targets more easily and more efficiently.
Grunt bots – literally automated bots that can seek out weak and vulnerable systems and break into them for the hacker in seconds – can save a hacker potentially hours of manual work. The healthcare sector is at particular risk because they’re known to sometimes use outdated systems which can be more vulnerable to attack.
It’s another wake-up call that means, unless healthcare sector shapes up its cybersecurity, they are at risk.
The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has been fined £325,000 by the ICO for losing recordings of sensitive police interviews. Not only did the CPS lose the footage, but they also failed to encrypt the lost police data as well.
The recordings were of multiple interviews with alleged child sex abuse victims that were to be used at trial.
It goes without saying that the unencrypted police data lost in this case was of an incredibly personal and sensitive nature. The fact that it was lost and allowed to be potentially exposed bas led to the huge fine imposed by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO).
The recent Equifax data breach ‘post-mortem’ that was completed, after a full overhaul and review of exactly what had happened was, a wake-up call, Data Leak Lawyers say.
Many people didn’t even know that Equifax had their data because it had been passed on to them as part of credit referencing checks, meaning a lot of people were surprised when they received the letter notifying them that they had been affected by the breach.
The final information about exactly what was exposed in the monumental hack that broke in the news last year served as a stark reminder about the vulnerability of personal data and was a wake-up call in terms of the scale and severity of the breach.
The University of Greenwich has been fined £120,000.00 by the ICO (Information Commissioner’s Office) after being found guilty of allowing personal and sensitive data they hold to be exposed.
The fine comes off the back of a serious data breach where the data for some 20,000 university students and staff was compromised from a micro-site that had been used in 2004 for a training conference. This micro-site was not closed or secured, and was comprised in 2013, and then multiple attacks in 2016 allowed hackers access to the university’s web-server.
Stolen card data is reportedly being advertised on Facebook, as well as login information for popular sites like Netflix and Amazon.
There are said to be hundreds of Facebook groups being used to sell on stolen information, which puts one heck of a twist on the development of the Facebook marketplace and the company’s efforts to be a more commercial platform for users.
Over a hundred Facebook groups with hundreds of thousands of members have apparently been identified by security researchers who say that the groups are dedicated to hacking, fraud and money laundering, with some of the groups having been active for almost a decade.
Should Equifax board members be sacked over the data breach? According to a recent shareholder’s meeting, the answer is reportedly “no”.
Despite the monumental Equifax data breach that occurred last year – an action our Data Leak Lawyers are pursuing on behalf of a number of victims – shareholders have reportedly voted to keep board members in.
It’s common for a number of high-level jobs to be lost following huge data breach scandals like the Equifax one, but in this case, the directors appear to have the backing of the shareholders.
TSB bank could face fines for data breach issues related to the system outage problem they suffered last month.
Many customers were left unable to properly use their accounts online and via their app for several days after a system upgrade reportedly went wrong. Some customers were unable to view their accounts, make payments or transfer money, with countless angry customers turning to social media to vent their frustrations.
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