The Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data, Hong Kong (Privacy Commissioner), Mr Stephen Kai-yi WONG, expressed serious concern over the Cathay Pacific Airways data breach incident, noting that the incident might involve a vast amount of personal data (such as name, date of birth, passport number, Hong Kong Identity Card number, credit card number, etc) of…
Month: October 2018
Two hackers behind 2016 Uber data breach have been indicted for another hack
Zack Whittaker reports: Two hackers who stole millions of users’ data from ride-hailing firm Uber have been indicted on separate hacking charges related to a data breach at online learning portal Lynda, two people familiar with the case have told TechCrunch. Vasile Mereacre, a Canadian citizen living in Toronto, and Brandon Glover, a Florida resident,…
EE: Personal and sensitive information of children publicly available for years
As I was just saying in the post about the Girl Scouts breach, children’s medical information can be breached in so many ways outside of the healthcare sector. And that’s true outside the U.S. as well. Priit Pärnapuu provides a concerning, but timely, example from Estonia: Schools’ information system EKIS allowed anyone to read and…
CA: Data breach may have exposed personal information of 3,000 Girl Scouts of Orange County
Children’s medical alerts and health conditions may be breached in so many ways outside of the healthcare sector. Schools, sports clubs, camps, and yes, boy scouts and girl scouts, are just some of the organizations that may hold sensitive information that gets breached, with no report needed to HHS. Alejandra Reyes-Velarde reports: Members of the…
ICO issues maximum £500,000 fine to Facebook for failing to protect users’ personal information
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has fined Facebook £500,000 for serious breaches of data protection law. In July, the ICO issued a Notice of Intent to fine Facebook as part of a wide ranging investigation into the use of data analytics for political purposes. After considering representations from the company, the ICO has issued the…
British Airways admits CVV data “potentially compromised” in hack
Mark Caswell reports: British Airways has this afternoon issued an update on the recent theft of customer data from its website and mobile app. The carrier said that investigations now show that the details of 77,000 payment cards may potentially have been compromised, including “billing address, email address, card payment information, including card number, expiry…