There’s a follow-up on a hacking case in France that I didn’t report on at the time. Oh well…. thankfully, Catalin Cimpanu has the details: Three hackers who were associated with the Anonymous movement are on trial in Paris, France, after hacking a French police union’s website and dumping the data of 541 police officers…
Month: February 2016
UK: Arrest in Norwich International Airport hack case
There’s an update to a hack of Norwich International Airport previously noted on this site. ITV reports that there’s been an arrest in the case, and a 29-year-old man has been charged. His name has not yet been made public. h/t, @arresttracker
UK: Brighton officer sacked for using police computers to stalk ex-wife and girlfriend
Thanks to the U.K. reader who sent along the link to this story. Frank Le Duc reports: A Brighton police officer has been sacked for using the force’s computer systems to stalk his ex-wife and girlfriend, even telling one of the women where she had been. PC Forrest Knight, who had worked in the Operations…
MY: Personal health data theft scary
From a letter to the editor of by S.M. Mohamed Idris of The Consumers’ Association of Penang (CAP) in Malaysia: [CAP] is distressed by the recent news that a group of hackers had hacked into the systems of both government and private hospitals and stolen the personal health data of tens of thousands of individuals – data…
Still lazy after all these years? 2,000 personal photos, emails, and other info found on used smartphones
David Bisson writes: In a recent experiment, researchers found 2,000 personal photos, email messages, and other information stored on used phones they purchased from pawn shops. Avast’s Deborah Salmi explains in a blog post how the security company’s researchers purchased some 20 used phones from pawn shops located in New York, Paris, Barcelona, and Berlin. Each shop…
MI: Resident discovers sensitive personal documents in Wyandotte Recycling Center bin
Jim Kasuba reports: It’s common knowledge that documents with personal information should be destroyed after no longer needed in order to lessen chances of identity theft. In most cases they’re put through a shredder. That wasn’t the case recently when a man using the Wyandotte Recycling Center, 1170 Grove, came upon documents that raised all…