The Office of the Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data in Hong Kong has released two reports on investigations involving possible violations of the Data Protection Ordinance. Both reports involve the Hong Kong Police Department. The first investigation involved the leakage of an HKPD document containing personally identifiable information via Foxy (a file-sharing program). Two instances…
Category: Breach Incidents
The Fisherman’s Restaurant notifies employees after contractor error results in their data being transmitted to another restaurant
Back in 2009, I reported on some hacks in the hospitality sector involving Radiant Systems’ point of sale technology and one of their distributors in Louisiana. But it was their back office technology service that was involved in a breach recently disclosed by The Fisherman’s Restaurant to its employees. By letter dated October 8th signed…
Huge Document Leaked From Ukraine Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Anonymous hacktivist have today again released another heap of documents from another Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Today’s target turns out to be Ukraine Ministry of Foreign Affairs (https://mfa.gov.ua/ua) and comes from the same anonymous hacktivist who last week leaked data from Poland’s ministry of economy. This data leak seems to be more focused back on the oil…
Pittsburgh Couple Sentenced To Probation And Community Service In Computer Hacking Case
A Pittsburgh couple have been sentenced in federal court today on their conviction of recklessly damaging a computer and password trafficking, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced last week. The defendants had pleaded guilty in June. United States District Judge David S. Cercone imposed the sentence on Jonathan Cunningham, 29, and Alyson Cunningham, 26….
We don’t store credit card data…. oh wait, we are storing it?
A firm can have a great policy of not storing credit card numbers, but if the policy isn’t followed by staff, trouble can result. eReplacementParts.com learned this lesson the hard way. They discovered that despite their non-storage policy, credit card information of some customers had been stored. In some cases, the storage was due to…
Hervé lifting
An insider breach previously reported on this blog continues to create problems for bank’s clients who were dodging their taxes. What Edward Snowden is to mass surveillance, Hervé Falciani is becoming to private banking. In 2008 the now 41-year-old native of Monaco walked out of the Geneva branch of HSBC, where he had worked for…