A Barclays employee who snooped in her partner’s ex-wife’s bank statements pleaded guilty in court to 11 offenses under section 55 of the Data Protection Act. The Information Commissioner’s Office reports she was fined £500 by Derby Crown Court and ordered to pay a £15 victim surcharge and £1,410.80 prosecution costs.
Category: Breach Incidents
NYC: 7 Indicted In Credit Card Fraud Scheme At Midtown Parking Garage
CBS News reports: Seven people were indicted Wednesday on charges of stealing credit card information from customers at the Midtown parking garage. The defendants were accused of using credit card-skimming devices to steal account information from the Eastway Tenant Parking Garage on West 49th Street, and creating counterfeit cards to buy Apple products at the…
WINZ privacy breach reports cost almost $500k
Katie Bradford-Crozier reports that two reports into the privacy breach at the Work and Income kiosks cost nearly half a million dollars. Read more on NewstalkZB.
IE: Investigation into possible data breach at 02
Irish mobile phone carrier O2 may have had a breach involving customer data. Or not. It seems they’re not really sure what was on a missing backup tape. And I’m not sure I understand why they first told this summer that a tape went missing in September 2011. And of course I’m not sure I…
AU: Macquarie University reportedly hacked
Macquarie University appears to have been hacked. Read the coverage on ZDNet and see a mirror of the defacement and the message.
#OpIsrael Still Attacking, Leaking Data & Taking Down Sites
The last few weeks has been pretty full on for Israel cyber space with hackers from all over the world standing together and fighting the governments for air strikes on Gaza strip which has been killing civilians. The first week or so of the operation was intense with hundreds of sites being hacked and left either defaced or data leaked or just…