Telecompaper reports: Italy’s data protection authority, Garante Privacy, has ordered Wind Tre to write to customers to notify them of a data breach that occurred on 20 March. Tech website Key4Biz reports that some 5,118 customers may have been affected when the service provider responsible for the Self Care 3 area was attacked. A total…
Category: Business Sector
Data enrichment records for 200 million people up for sale on the Darknet
Steve Ragan reports: Full data enrichment profiles for more than 200 million people have been placed up for sale on the Darknet. The person offering the files claims the data is from Experian, and is looking to get $600 for everything. […] Salted Hash also reached out to Experian and one other firm, Acxiom,…
20 Apple employees arrested in China for ‘selling’ personal data of customers
AFP reports: Chinese authorities say they have uncovered a massive underground operation run by Apple employees selling computer and phone users’ personal data. Twenty-two people have been detained on suspicion of infringing individuals’ privacy and illegally obtaining their digital personal information, according to a statement from local police in southern Zhejiang province on Wednesday. Of…
West African computer hacker sentenced to prison
WXIA reports: Eric Donys Simeu, a citizen of Cameroon extradited from France, has been sentenced in Atlanta to more than four years in federal prison for a series of “phishing campaigns.” According to the Atlanta U.S. attorney’s office, Simeu, who also went by the name of Martell Collins, was responsible for a series of “phishing…
Data breach affects Irish users of global hotel website
Pádraig Hoare reports: Irish customers were among those who had data stolen by hackers on one of the world’s most popular hotel booking sites, Hotels.com, the company has confirmed. The website has sent compromised customers an email advising that their username, password, email address, and the last four digits of stored credit card numbers were…
Russian suspected hacker moves step closer to US extradition
Shaun Walker reports: A Russian suspected hacker has moved a step closer to being sent to the US as a Czech judge gave tentative approval for an extradition to go ahead, during a court hearing held inside a high-security prison in Prague. Yevgeniy Nikulin, who was arrested at a restaurant in the Czech capital last…