Ca: Hay River health authority warns of potential privacy breach after break-in at local hospital

CBC News reports: There’s been another apparent break-in at a Hay River, N.W.T., health facility, according to the Hay River Health and Social Services Authority, and this time, there may have been a privacy breach. During the early morning hours… Continue reading Ca: Hay River health authority warns of potential privacy breach after break-in at local hospital

Castle Hills police recover stolen IDs, urge residents to check for identity theft

It’s not quite on the order of recovering millions in bitcoin, but in Texas last week, a traffic stop in Castle Hills  resulted in the recovery of a number of stolen identification paperwork including “A licenses, passports, checkbooks and also s… Continue reading Castle Hills police recover stolen IDs, urge residents to check for identity theft

UK: Hospital medic lost boxes of private patient data while conducting study without approval

Jonathan Humphries reports: A senior medic has been suspended after running a clinical trial using sensitive medical information without permission of his hospital. Miguel Martin Garcia, a band 8 physiotherapist at Liverpool Women’s Hospital, use… Continue reading UK: Hospital medic lost boxes of private patient data while conducting study without approval

A hard disk with data of 30,000 people stolen from the Amsterdam tax office

Jeffrey Clark reports: A hard drive was stolen from a computer used to scan incoming mail items from Municipal Tax Service buildings in Amsterdam. Alderman Victor Everhardt (Finance) wrote this in a letter to City Council (pdf). The hard drive contains… Continue reading A hard disk with data of 30,000 people stolen from the Amsterdam tax office

Winnipeg Regional Health Authority is contacting 58 people after a data breach

ChrisD reports: The Winnipeg Regional Health Authority is contacting 58 people after a data breach. The WRHA says a home care employee had a bag stolen from her vehicle containing employees’ daily schedule of activities, including personal health infor… Continue reading Winnipeg Regional Health Authority is contacting 58 people after a data breach

Web Credit Card Skimmer Steals Data from Another Credit Card Skimmer

MalwareBytes is reporting a weird software credit card skimmer. It harvests credit card data stolen by another, different skimmer:

Even though spotting multiple card skimmer scripts on the same online shop is not unheard of, this one stood out due to its highly specialized nature.

“The threat actors devised a version of their script that is aware of sites already injected with a Magento 1 skimmer,” Malwarebytes’ Head of Threat Intelligence Jérôme Segura explains in a report shared in advance with Bleeping Computer.

“That second skimmer will simply harvest credit card details from the already existing fake form injected by the previous attackers.”…

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