Henry Martin reports: A police receptionist who accessed her force’s confidential database ‘like Facebook’ to help her best friend keep track of her tearaway family has been spared jail with a suspended sentence. Ex-prison warder Jacqueline Wilson, 51, made illicit checks on police investigations after former workmate Jacqueline Goosey, 52, asked her for information about…
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Details of 92 Million Brazilians Auctioned on Underground Forums
Ionut Ilascu reports: Someone is auctioning on underground forums a database allegedly containing personal information of 92 million Brazilian citizens. They claim that every record is real and unique. The seller also advertises a search service focused on Brazilians, saying that they can dig up details about an individual starting from minimum initial data. The…
GH: Hard disk containing Opuni trial stolen from court
Kojo Emmanuel reports: The hard disk which contains recording and storing court records and proceedings of the ongoing criminal case against the former Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of COCOBOD, Dr. Stephen Opuni and the Managing Director of Agricult Limited, Seidu Agongo, a fertilizer manufacturing company has been stolen from the system unit of the computer….
NZ: Confidential information at risk after computer stolen from Commerce Commission
James Fyfe and Edward O’Driscoll report: A computer holding hundreds of meeting and interview transcripts has been stolen from the Commerce Commission. The computer belonged to an external provider and was taken last week, the Commerce Commission said in a statement on Tuesday. The transcripts cover a range of the commission’s work and may date…
Hacker shuts down Spanish city’s computer sytem and demands bitcoin ransom
AFP reports: A hacker has taken over the computer system of the southern Spanish city of Jerez de la Frontera and is demanding a ransom paid in bitcoin to unlock it, local officials said Friday. The cyber attack, which has caused outages of services offered through the city’s website, began on Tuesday night, a municipal…
PA: Bradford City Hall nearly back to normal after ransomware incident
Marcie Schellhammer reports: Bradford City Hall has been up and running all week after the ransomware attack last weekend. Mayor Tom Riel said Friday the replacement computers are in place. “The computers are fully operational with just a few minor details to be worked out in the coming days,” he said. “We didn’t lose any…