Sum Lok-kei reports: Hong Kong’s second-largest residential broadband provider will purge the data of 900,000 former customers, as well as reducing how long it holds information, after a hack last week compromised the data of hundreds of thousands of customers. Hong Kong Broadband Network (HKBN) announced the new security measures as CEO William Yeung Chu-kwong…
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U.S. Seeks Long Jail Term For Yahoo Hacker, Sending ‘Message Of Deterrence’ To FSB
Mike Eckel reports: U.S. authorities have demanded a nearly eight-year prison sentence for a Kazakh-born computer hacker, asserting that a harsh term would send a message to Russia’s main intelligence agency about hacking and espionage. Federal prosecutors made the arguments in court filings in San Francisco ahead of the next hearing for Karim Baratov, who…
Dubai’s Careem admits to data breach of 14 million users
Khaleej Times reports: If you were a regular customer of ride-sharing service Careem, this piece of news might leave you worried. The Dubai-based company today acknowledged that a cyber attack on January 14, 2018 resulted in the theft of personal data of up to 14 million people in Middle East, North Africa, Pakistan and Turkey….
Ca: 1,100 Hamilton residents’ emails compromised following data breach
Lisa Polewski reports: The emails of about 1,100 residents have been compromised following a data breach of two waste collection apps, according to the city of Hamilton. Municipal Media Inc., the service provider for Recycle Coach and My Waste, reported the data breach to the city and several other municipalities earlier this week. Read more…
A Private Intelligence Platform, LocalBlox, Leaked 48 Million Personal Data Records
New from UpGuard: The UpGuard Cyber Risk Team can now confirm that a cloud storage repository containing information belonging to LocalBlox, a personal and business data search service, was left publicly accessible, exposing 48 million records of detailed personal information on tens of millions of individuals, gathered and scraped from multiple sources. This data includes…
INM Data Breach: Main players brace for what’s next in crisis
Eamon Quinn reports: Ireland’s largest publishing firm, the stock market-listed Independent News and Media, has been thrown into crisis amid serious allegations by the State’s corporate enforcer that include claims of governance misdeeds and email hacks. Read more on Irish Examiner.