The Bangkok Post reports: The telecom regulator has handed an official warning letter to a subsidiary of Advanced Info Service (AIS), urging it to strictly ensure cybersecurity and data protection after the firm accidentally exposed its database of 8 billion internet records online without a password during a scheduled test earlier this month. The move…
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Arbonne MLM data breach exposes user passwords, personal info
Sergiu Gatlan reports: International multi-level marketing (MLM) firm Arbonne International exposed the personal information and credentials of thousands after its internal systems were breached by an unauthorized party last month. […] “On the evening of April 20, 2020, Arbonne became aware of unusual activity within a limited number of its internal systems,” Arbonne says in a data breach…
NZ: ASB Securities hit with $80,000 fine for 14-year privacy breach
The New Zealand Herald reports: ASB Securities has been fined $80,000 for a privacy breach which left hundreds of online accounts able to be viewed and traded by users without permission. The New Zealand Markets Disciplinary Tribunal censured the online share trading platform after 576 of its trading accounts were made vulnerable to unauthorised use…
26 million LiveJournal credentials leaked online, sold on the dark web
Catalin Cimpanu reports: Blogging platform LiveJournal appears to have suffered a security breach in 2014, according to multiple hackers who are now selling and freely trading the company’s user database on the dark web and on hacking forums, ZDNet has learned. For some, this might be old news. Rumors about a LiveJournal security breach have been circulating online for…
Leak at Desjardins: a mortgage broker buys a list of 5000 names
The following is a translation provided by Google: A Quebec mortgage broker paid $ 3,000 in cash to obtain a list of personal and confidential data belonging to approximately 5,000 people. This is what emerged from a hearing by the disciplinary committee of the Organisme d’autoréglementation du courtage immobilier du Québec (OACIQ) during which Marc-Olivier…
A massive database of 8 billion Thai internet records leaks
Zack Whittaker reports: Thailand’s largest cell network AIS has pulled a database offline that was spilling billions of real-time internet records on millions of Thai internet users. Security researcher Justin Paine said in a blog post that he found the database, containing DNS queries and Netflow data, on the internet without a password. With access to this…