Yonhap News reports: McDonald’s Korea was given a fine of 696 million won (US$532,110) on Wednesday after the personal data of 4.87 million customers was leaked to hackers due to the firm’s lax data management. The Personal Information Protection Commission handed out the fine to the Korean branch of the American fast food chain, along…
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Skylink hit by hacker attack
Chris Dziadul reports: M7 Group’s Czech and Slovak operator Skylink has fallen the victim of a hacker attack. In a note published on the Skylink CZ’s Facebook page, the operator said: “We apologise, currently we have reported a system outage (web, customer zone) due to a hacker attack. We are working intensively on the repair….
Privacy Commissioner Steps Away From Cyber Attack Investigation
VOCM reports: Privacy Commissioner Michael Harvey has stepped away from further involvement in his office’s investigation into the 2021 cyber attack on the health care system. Revelations about government seeking a court ruling on a potential conflict of interest with Harvey was a topic during question period in the House of Assembly yesterday. Read more…
Schools are ‘target rich’ for cyberattacks, fed agency helps fight back
Kayla J. Dunn reports: Schools have a lot of information — and not just the educational kind. Social security numbers, addresses, staff members’ banking information, the list goes on. That data is stored digitally, and schools are increasingly a prime target for cybercriminals seeking to steal the sensitive information. […] A 2022 report on cybersecurity attacks in…
Latitude Financial data breach widens as fears over copies of driver’s licences grow
Trevor Long reports: Latitude Financial has today released a statement to the Australian Stock Exchange (ASX) which confirms fears foreshadowed two days ago that the data breach is far worse than first anticipated. When the company first reported the breach, the number of affected customers was around 330,000, however today a statement says “regrettably our review has…
Only 15 entities have complied with India’s new 6-hour reporting rules
Simon Sharwood reports: India’s rules requiring local organizations to report infosec incidents within six hours of detection have been observed by a mere 15 entities. India’s Computer Emergency Response team (CERT-In) revealed that low, low, level of compliance in response to a Right to Information (RTI) request filed by Indian tech news outlet MediaNama, which reported the news…