Margi Murphy Ben Riley-Smith report: The European Commission has claimed it is not subject to the strict new data protection law that it has imposed across Europe, following an “embarrassing” leak of personal data on its website. Officials in Brussels admitted the bureaucracy that designed the rules is not itself compliant with the General Data Protection…
Month: May 2018
Hackers threaten to reveal personal data of 90,000 Canadians caught in bank hack
Pete Evans reports: Hackers have threatened to release personal information for nearly 100,000 customers of two Canadian banks unless the lenders pay a $1-million ransom for its safe return. On Monday, Bank of Montreal and online bank Simplii Financial — owned by CIBC — revealed that they learned over the weekend that the identifying personal information of a combined 90,000 different…
Oxnard city officials investigate data breach
Jeremy Childs reports: Oxnard city officials learned of a data breach last week that may have affected the personal data of utility customers in the city. On Friday, the city was contacted by a bank representative about fraudulent purchases being made with the cards people used to pay their utility bills using the city’s Click2Gov (Superion) online payment…
Purdue warns patients that their information might be compromised
Ron Wilkins reports: Patients of the Purdue University Pharmacy and the Family Health Clinic of Carroll County are receiving notices this week that their information might be compromised because of a security breach. Letters informing patients were mailed out Friday, according to a Purdue news release. Read more on Journal & Courier.
Court rejects prosecution’s request for longer sentence, sentences Karim Baratov to 5 years plus a $250,000 fine
SAN FRANCISCO – Karim Baratov, aka Kay, aka Karim Taloverov, aka Karim Akehmet Tokbergenov, 23, was sentenced to 60 months in prison and ordered to pay a $250,000 fine, which encompasses all of his remaining assets. The sentence was announced by Acting U.S. Attorney Alex G. Tse for the Northern District of California, Assistant Attorney…
Privacy Commissioner says Avenue Living privacy breach poses a risk
Leah Murray reports that an insider breach at a property management firm resulted in dozens of tenants being notified that their information may have been stolen. The unauthorized access is believed to have occurred sometime between August 2016 and November 2016: A company that operates apartment buildings in several Alberta communities, including Lethbridge, Medicine Hat…