Bruno reports: The hackers of the city parking fine system in Saint John, Canada have been selling sensitive data on the dark web for over a year. The security breach in the system was not spotted for 15 months after the initial attack, which ultimately allowed the hackers to gain personal information and credit card…
Category: Government Sector
AU: Foreign actor could be to blame for cyber-security breach at federal parliament
Greg Brown reports: Labor MP Anthony Byrne has called for top bureaucrats to be hauled before the parliamentary intelligence and security committee amid concern among federal MPs a foreign actor has breached the IT systems of politicians. Mr Byrne, the deputy chair of the parliamentary joint committee on intelligence and security, has demanded an explanation…
NZTA again forced to contact the Privacy Commissioner after another privacy breach
Jason Walls reports: The New Zealand Transport Agency is embroiled in yet another privacy saga, after accidentally revealing the private email addresses of almost 900 people in a mass traffic update email. This comes not long after the agency was forced to notify the Privacy Commissioner after it lost an unencrypted USB drive containing the…
AU: Officer jailed for using police database to access personal details of dozens of Tinder dates
Frances Bell reports: A former long-serving police officer has been jailed for six months for illegally accessing the personal details of almost 100 women to determine if they were “suitable” dates. Adrian Trevor Moore was a 28-year veteran of WA Police and was nominated as police officer of the year in 2011. The former senior…
Yet another Aadhaar-related leak?
Zack Whittaker reports: A lapse in security has led to the leaking of over a hundred thousand Aadhaar numbers, TechCrunch can reveal. One of the web systems used to record attendance of government workers for the Indian state of Jharkhand was left exposed and without a password as far back as 2014, allowing anyone access…
Ca: RCMP breached a sexual assault complainant’s personal information
Catharine Tunney reports: Someone went to the RCMP with an allegation of sexual assault — only to see their most closely-guarded private information being leaked. The force is now apologizing after the wrong label was applied to an outgoing package containing three operational files dealing with sexual assaults. Those files included a complainant’s name, date of birth, address,…