Paul Farrell reports: A Westpac manager handed over the banking passwords of 80 customer accounts to a mortgage broker, giving them direct access to personal bank accounts in a serious breach of customer privacy. It is one of a catalogue of 32 breaches Australia’s four largest banks disclosed to the Office of the Australian Information…
Month: September 2018
Deadly fire exposes wealthy man’s secret underground tunnels
Michael Kunzelman of Associated Press reports: The wealthy stock trader took elaborate steps to conceal the network of tunnels beneath his house in this Washington, D.C., suburb. Even the young man helping him dig them didn’t know where they were. A year ago, a deadly fire exposed Daniel Beckwi tt’s curious campaign to build an…
Gang of hackers seizes WhatsApp accounts of Karachi users
The News (PK) reports: KARACHI: WhatsApp accounts of citizens are getting hacked by an anonymous group of hackers, Geo.tv reported on Tuesday. According to the report, numerous complaints were registered to the Federal Investigation Authority (FIA) since the past few days regarding the victims getting their accounts hacked. The hacking was done subsequent to a…
Latvenergo asks authorities to look into possible data leak
The TV3 television channel on September 9 reported that unknown individuals offered several political parties to buy a database, purportedly with the contact info, including mobile phone numbers, of Latvenergo clients. The parties – not named in the report – were supposedly asked €80,000 for the database. Meanwhile Latvenergo representatives are sure that there have been…
Hackers that compromised Ticketmaster blamed for British Airways security breach
Graeme Burton reports: Researchers at security consultancy RiskIQ claim that British Airways was breached by the same group, dubbed Magecart, that compromised Ticketmaster earlier this year. And Magecart is now so prolific that RiskIQ claims to be getting hourly alerts of new websites compromised by Magecart’s malicious JavaScript code. For British Airways, though, the group customised…
UK: TV Licencing urges tens of thousands of Scottish customers to check bank statements after data security breach
Helen Knapman reports: Thousands of Scots television viewers who have entered their details on the TV Licencing website in the past few weeks are being urged to check their bank statements for suspicious transactions following a data alert. TV Licencing warns that from 29 August until around 3.20pm on 5 September 2018, some transactions carried…