Tim Lohman reports: The Privacy Commissioner’s report into the alleged privacy breach of some four million Vodafone customers’ billing and call records has found failings on the telco’s behalf. The report noted two key areas of the National Privacy Principles, NPP 2.1 and NPP 4.1, which applied to the incident. NPP 2.1 states that organisations…
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Hacker Blackmails Nintendo With Personal Data From 4,000 Gamers
Warren Riddle reports: Earlier this month, an unnamed hacker reportedly infiltrated a Nintendo 3DS promotional site and uncovered the names, e-mail addresses and postal codes of 4,000 Nintendo members. The assailant then allegedly blackmailed Nintendo because he believed “the firm had shown negligence in not securing the information more effectively.” According to Naked Security, Nintendo alerted the…
ME: Data breach affects Mainers’ bank and credit union accounts
Ken Christian reports: A data breach is affecting the bank accounts of what is potentially thousands of Mainers. John Murphy, President of the Maine Credit Union League told NEWS CENTER says the suspicious activity was noticed during the last several days. Murphy says members are seeing activity on their cards that were not purchases they…
Lush web sites in AU and NZ also hacked
Last month, this blog reported that the UK site of Lush cosmetics had been hacked. Three weeks later, Lush customers in Australia and New Zealand are being notified by email that those Lush sites were hacked as well. The breaches occur to be separate hacks and reportedly only affect those who placed orders online. The…
(update) NC: U.B.E. breach victims total continues to climb
Jackie Drake reports: Greenville Police are handling at least 100 complaints so far from East Carolina University students who say they lost money after their accounts were compromised in a recent security breach at the University Book Exchange. The breach is believed to have occurred between Jan. 5 and Jan. 25 and the case is…
Unencrypted FirstGroup America applicant data on lost flash drive
An unencrypted flash drive with First Transit applicants’ personal information was recently lost on a bus in Cincinnati. According to a notification sent to the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office on February 4, the stick was lost on January 21. It contained applicants’ names, addresses, dates of birth, Social Security Numbers, information about applicants’ criminal…