Nino Bucci reports: Police are investigating the hacking of a gun club database that may have exposed where more than 1500 semi-automatic handguns are stored. The private details of 540 members from the Port Melbourne club, including the types of weapons they owned, is believed to have been compromised this month, potentially exposing them to…
Category: Business Sector
AU: Sensitive ABC data exposed in leak
Nick Evans reports: Sensitive details of many of the ABC’s commercial customers have been exposed in a major data breach, according to a German IT security firm, potentially offering up a “trove of data” on its business activities. Kromtech Security Centre said yesterday ABC Commercial, the publicly funded broadcaster’s licensing, retail and publishing business, accidentally…
Cn: Police detain 20 over personal information infringement
Oops. I missed this last week when Xinhua reported: Police in east China’s Wenzhou City, Zhejiang Province have seized 20 people suspected of stealing more than 300,000 pieces of personal information. The gang were found to have hacked into servers of over 50 airline company websites since 2016. The leaks included user IDs, passwords and…
Ca: VerticalScope confirms user information stolen from six hacked websites
The Canadian Press reports: Toronto-based VerticalScope Inc. says six of the community websites it administers were hacked last month in the latest of a recent series of data breaches affecting Canadian online user information. […] It says the data did not include credit card or banking information but did include usernames, email addresses, encrypted passwords,…
UK: Cash Converters hacked; customer data held for ransom
Tim Collins reports: Hackers who attacked the now defunct website of second hand goods store Cash Converters may have access to the account details of thousands of customers. Usernames, passwords, delivery addresses and potentially partial credit card numbers are among the data believed to have been stolen. The culprits are said to be holding the…
Huddle’s ‘highly secure’ work tool exposed KPMG and BBC files
Chris Foxx reports: The BBC has discovered a security flaw in the office collaboration tool Huddle that led to private documents being exposed to unauthorised parties. A BBC journalist was inadvertently signed in to a KPMG account, with full access to private financial documents. Huddle is an online tool that lets work colleagues share content…