Some updates to the First State Superannuation breach reported previously: 1. First State will not be taking legal action against Patrick Webster, the customer and IT security expert who alerted them to the breach. 2. The Australian Privacy Commissioner will investigate the breach. 3. On October 19, First State issued a statement linked from their home…
Category: Breach Incidents
UK: Housing group emailed workers’ details to wrong address
As a follow-up to a breach previously reported on this site, the Information Commissioner’s Office found that a private housing group breached the Data Protection Act by sending the personal data of 200 employees to the wrong email address. In March of this year, an employee of Spectrum Housing Group accidentally emailed a non-secure excel…
Team Swastika group hacks 10,000 global Facebook account details – or did they?
Phil Muncaster reports: Security experts are warning web users to ensure they use strong passwords and vary their credentials from site to site after a new hacking group published log-in details of what it claimed to be more than 10,000 Facebook users. Trend Micro’s director of security research, Rik Ferguson, explained in a blog post that the…
UK: 100 private documents accidentally published on police website
Martin Williams writes: Privacy breaches by the Metropolitan Police have left more than 100 documents online which contain confidential information. Names, email addresses and employment details are among the private data which can still be viewed on the Met’s website. Police publish all their responses to questions in an online disclosure log. But staff are routinely failing to…
10,000+ FaceBook account’s hacked by @TeamSwaStika
Recently Formed Hacking Crew From Nepal called "TeamSwaStika" hacked more than 10 thousand facebook account hacked . they claim as as most powerful hacking team from Nepal. They also said that next target will be Nepal Government website and egovernence for Freedom . "Fight For Justice | Justice To Freedom Never Give up | Never…
UAE: Bank gaffe shows info of wealthy customers
Gregor Hunter reports: A bank blunder has revealed the personal email details of scores of HSBC’s high-income customers for the second time in two years. The security breach occurred after a mass email was sent on Sunday morning to 178 customers of HSBC Premier, the bank’s account level for high earners, advising them that it…