Yesterday, I linked to a report about yet another misconfigured database. This was one leaking more sensitive information, as the due diligence data were from Thomson Reuters’ World-Check service, although the 2014 database that was exposed on the internet belonged to neither of those entities. The due diligence aspect is that banks and other institutions are…
Category: Business Sector
AU: TeleChoice forced to compensate customers over 2014 data breach
Sometimes by the time a case is resolved, I’ve forgotten what it was. I’m old, I forget. Thankfully, I can check the archives of this site to see if I had covered it before. Happily for me, I had covered this one, which involved TeleChoice somewhat stunningly leaving consumers’ personal information in a shipping container…
Euro 2016 app leaking private user data
Sam Pudwell reports: I’ve been trying not to think about Euro 2016 after England’s whimpering exit on Monday night, but new research from mobile security and management firm Wandera has grabbed my attention. According to analysis of data traffic patterns from enterprise mobile devices, the official UEFA Euro 2016 Fan Guide App is leaking user’s personal information…
Hackers Track HashOcean Mining Company
The latest information from a group which claims to be ethical hackers shows efforts to trace the owners and identify the operation of the defunct HashOcean Bitcoin mining company, which suddenly disappeared with an estimated millions of dollars worth of the digital currency as investment from miner, is ongoing. “We are so close and we have been…
Dubious list of dubious figures leaked online
Max Metzger reports: A list of suspected criminals has been leaked online. The list was leaked from a Thomson-Reuters due diligence service, World-Check. which profiles individuals and businesses suspected of ties to organised crime and terrorism. The leaked database contains 2.2 million records from an old list, dated back to mid-2014. Read more on SC…
AU: Computer game hacker pleads guilty to nine charges in Brisbane District Court
There’s a follow-up to an arrest reported in 2014. Melanie Petrinec reports: Hacker Shane Duffy has been sentenced to 2.5 years in jail but will be released on parole today. The 23-year-old’s family sobbed in the public gallery as the sentence was handed down by Judge Tony Moynihan. Shane Stephen Duffy, 23, pleaded guilty to nine…