Jack Kim reports: North Korea hacked into more than 140,000 computers at 160 South Korean firms and government agencies, planting malicious code under a long-term plan laying groundwork for a massive cyber attack against its rival, police in the South said on Monday. South Korea has been on heightened alert against cyber attacks by theNorth after Pyongyang conducted a…
Month: June 2016
JP: Personal info on 7.93 million people feared leaked
Kyodo News reports: Major Japanese travel agency JTB Corp. said Tuesday personal information on some 7.93 million people is feared to have been leaked due to unauthorized access to its server. The information includes customer names, addresses, e-mail addresses and passport numbers. Around 4,300 passport numbers feared to be leaked are still valid, JTB said….
Police arrest S. Korean teenager suspected of defacing 3,847 websites in one year
Yonhap News reports: Police said Tuesday they have arrested a South Korean high school student, who follows the international hacktivist group Anonymous, on charges of hacking some thousands of domestic and foreign websites since last year. The 16-year-old, whose identity was withheld, is suspected of defacing a total of 3,847 websites from 87 countries between…
CZ: T-Mobile Employee Arrested for Trying to Sell Customer Data
Cellular News reports: T Mobile’s Czech subsidiary came close to suffering a massive data breach following actions by an employee of the company. Local media reported that an employee attempted to sell the details of 1.5 million customers to fraudsters, but that the attempt was detected before the customer account details were handed over. “Unfortunately,…
CA: Courthouse data breach exposes personal information
Monica Vaughan reports: Private personal information of potentially thousands of people was unintentionally available on public access computers in the Sutter County Superior Courthouse on Monday. The data breach occurred when a new case management system went live Monday morning. The system was taken down the same afternoon after an Appeal-Democrat reporter alerted Court Executive…
Tennessee Breach-Notification Law Indicative of Data-Security Regulators’ Lack of Creativity
David Zetoony of Bryan Cave writes: There is no shortage of data-privacy and security laws in the United States. By our count there are now about 300 state and federal statutes. They include breach-notification laws, data-disposal laws, data-safeguard laws, payment card information-protection laws … the list goes on and on. Many of these laws, and…