ITV reports yet more insider snooping by hopsital employees in the wake of the Southport terror attack: A second hospital in Liverpool is carrying out an investigation into two potential instances of staff accessing medical records connected with the Southport terror attack. The cases were detected at Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital as part of...

Rowan Sterling reports: On 20 August 2026 an employee of RIZAP Inc., the Japanese fitness and health-guidance group, was pulling records out of the health-guidance management system it operates for insurers when the data went into a generative AI service on a personal account the company had never approved. The records covered 726 members of...

Grace Atta reports: The Northern Territory health department has backtracked on its claim that only five patients were affected by a privacy breach that led to pregnant women’s confidential medical information being shared with 28,000 followers on Instagram by a “medical observer”. The admission comes after the ABC earlier this week contacted multiple women it...

Ellie Ng reports: More NHS staff have been dismissed for inappropriately accessing medical records of the Nottingham stabbing victims, taking the total sacked so far to 15, a trust said. Students Barnaby Webber and Grace O’Malley-Kumar and grandfather Ian Coates were stabbed to death in the city by Valdo Calocane in 2023. During its investigation,...

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In today’s reminder of the insider threat, Kim Ji-won reports: A National Health Insurance Service (NHIS) employee was dismissed for illegally selling personal information of health insurance subscribers to external parties, but victims have yet to be notified of the data breach. Rep. Kim Ki-woong of the People Power Party revealed this during a parliamentary audit...

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Sergiu Gatlan has an update on a case previously noted on this site. A former core infrastructure engineer at an industrial company headquartered in New Jersey was sentenced to 32 months in prison for locking thousands of devices on his employer’s network in a ransomware-style attack. 57-year-old Daniel Rhyne from Kansas City, Missouri, pleaded guilty...

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Matt Bracken reports: A Federal Reserve Board staffer mishandled sensitive classified files and triggered hundreds of data loss prevention alerts leading up to their retirement, the agency’s inspector general revealed in a new report. The security issues with the employee were uncovered by the watchdog during its audit of the Fed’s offboarding process, which began...

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Tom McArthur and Louise Parry report: Ten NHS staff have been removed from duty or suspended after a data breach involving the digital medical records of three-year-old Noah Woods. Launching an “urgent” investigation, Dr Martin Mansfield, deputy chief medical officer at East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust, said that any unauthorised access of...

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Amir Kurz recently reported: Three weeks after his arrest, the State Attorney’s Office’s Cyber Department on Thursday filed a major indictment against Michael “Miki” Bar, a 43-year-old hacker from Ashkelon who served as Chief Information Security Officer for the Hamat Group. The group itself has no connection to the charges. According to the indictment, Bar...

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Choi Won-woo reports: Internal data amounting to 1,894 cases from the Korean-type heavy ion accelerator ‘Raon,’ built with a state budget of 1.5 trillion Korean won [USD $1,080,038,017.50 at today’s rates] was confirmed to have been leaked externally. The estimated time of the leak is 2022, and the Institute for Basic Science (IBS) Heavy Ion...

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Connor Jones reports: A former AT&T retail worker who used his system access to hijack customers’ phone numbers for cybercriminals has been sentenced to 16 months in federal prison. Kenneth Carter, 44, carried out the SIM swaps at a store in Portland, Oregon, , allowing the criminals to intercept authentication codes and raid victims’ bank accounts....

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Urijah Jaushlin reports: Two Lamesa ISD employees were arrested in connection with a law enforcement investigation involving allegations of a breach of computer security, according to a press release by the Lamesa Independent School District Friday morning. The Lamesa Police Department announced in a press release that authorities, along with the Texas Rangers, arrested 54-year-old...

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