Global Data Leakage Report, H1 2015
InfoWatch Analytical Center presents this report on confidential data leaks in H1 2015. Key Facts In H1 2015, InfoWatch Analytical Center registered 723 data leaks revealed (in the media and other sources) worldwide, which is 10% more than in H1 2014. External attacks were behind 32% of data leaks, thus demonstrating an increase by 9 percentage points (p.p.) if compared with H1 2014. 90% of data leaks are related to personal data.
Goldman Banker and Fed Employee both fired after the leak
A former Goldman Sachs banker suspected of taking confidential documents from a source inside the government has agreed to plead guilty, dealbook reports.
Comcast resets 200K
Comcast says it wasn't hacked, but hundreds of thousands of its customers may have been, forcing the cable giant to reset passwords to email accounts of about 200,000 customers, nakedsecurity reports.
TalkTalk data breach impacts up to 4 million customers
Around four million TalkTalk customer's personal information may have been accessed by hackers after a sustained attack on the firm's infrastructure. The company has confirmed that some of the data was not encrypted, scmagazineuk.com reports.
15GB data dump of user data is now open to see
On Thursday, crowdfunding artist patron and support service Patreon informed customers that a data breach had taken place, Zdnet.com reports.
HDD with personal data of 3.4 million students was lost
Sensitive personal information about millions of students is at risk because British Columbia’s Ministry of Education has misplaced a hard drive containing documents that were stored without a fundamental safety measure: data encryption, The Globe and Mail reports.
900 patients affected by Heartland privacy breach
An employee has been terminated and roughly 900 patients are being notified following a privacy breach in Saskatchewan’s Heartland Health Region, thestarphoenix.com reports. According to a news release issued Thursday, a “detailed inquiry” was launched after the breach was reported in July.
Confidential medical data found abandoned on campus
Names, addresses and sensitive information discovered in unlocked filing cabinet at University of Bedfordshire The University of Bedfordshire has launched a review after confidential medical data from teenage research participants was found abandoned in an unlocked filing cabinet. Folders containing adolescents’ names, addresses, stages of puberty and other details were discovered during a clear-out of offices at Bedfordshire’s Luton campus in July, according to a source at the university.
Web.com reports 93K customers’ payment card data compromised
Web.com reported that it discovered an unauthorized breach of one of its computer systems on August 13, 2015. As the result of this attack, the credit card information of approximately 93,000 customers (of the company’s over 3.3 million customers) may have been compromised. The company uncovered the unauthorized activity through its ongoing security monitoring, databreaches.net reports.
Germany's new cyber-security law
German institutions and businesses that fall in the "critical infrastructure" category will have to implement new information security measures, as defined by the new IT security law passed on Friday by the German Bundesrat (the country's "Federal Council"), reports the website www.net-security.org
