Sebastian McCarthy reports: Morrisons has been granted permission to appeal to the Supreme Court after losing a major court case over a data leak. In October the UK’s fourth-biggest supermarket lost an appeal against a High Court ruling that concluded the firm was legally liable for a former employee leaking personal information about 100,000 staff…
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IT Grids Aadhaar data theft case may be the biggest ever in India: Experts
U Sudhakar Reddy reports: The IT Grids case may not be the first FIR filed on basis of a complaint by the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) but the magnitude of the case is huge according to data security researchers. The case pertaining to the Sevamitra app designed by the company for the Telugu…
Man convicted in Dubai for hacking 15 websites
Ali Al Shouk reports: A man was sentenced to three months in prison followed by deportation for hacking the server of a media company which was responsible for 15 client websites, a Dubai Court of First Instance heard yesterday. The 33-year-old Indian man was charged with hacking websites and issuing threats. He was handed a…
Microsoft: Hackers compromised support agent’s credentials to access customer email accounts
Ingrid Lunden and Zack Whittaker report: … Microsoft has confirmed to TechCrunch that a certain “limited” number of people who use web email services managed by Microsoft — which cover services like @msn.com and @hotmail.com — had their accounts compromised. “We addressed this scheme, which affected a limited subset of consumer accounts, by disabling the…
JP: Customer information stolen from popular luxury cruise train’s site
Kyodo News reports: Kyushu Railway Co. said Friday that personal and credit information on up to 8,000 customers were stolen from the goods store website for its “Seven Stars in Kyushu” luxury cruise train. The leaked information includes customers’ names, addresses, phone numbers, email addresses, date of birth and type of work, according to JR…
Majority of Hotel Websites Leak Guest Booking Info
Jai Vijayan reports: Information that people submit when making an online hotel reservation is often available in its entirety to a lot more parties than just the hotel itself. New research from Symantec shows that a majority of hotels—from small independent properties to large five-star resorts and chains—routinely leak detailed guest booking data with third-party…