Namaan Zhou reports: The personal details of more than 4,000 government employees have been exposed in a massive data breach of 50,000 staff records from various companies across Australia. The leak, first reported by iTnews, is believed to be the second-largest data breach in Australian history, after the details of 550,000 blood donors were accidentally…
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VEC discovers personal details of about 21,000 Victorian voters accidentally published online
Monique Hore reports: Thousands of Bayside residents’ names and addresses have been broadcast online in an electoral roll privacy breach. The Victorian Electoral Commission discovered in May that the details of about 21,000 voters in the 2015 Bayside council election could be found online, including the names and addresses of 28 people who have since become…
Terror threat as unencrypted Heathrow Airport security files found dumped in the street
From the holy-shit-this-is-bad dept. Dan Warburton reports that a man found a USB stick in the street and plugged it in to a library computer (well, ok, we can discuss that later), but what he found was breath-taking, and not in a good way: 174 documents with 2.5 GB of data that included: The exact…
Midland County notifies residents of data breach
Violet Trevizo reports: The Midland County District Attorney is warning residents after their third-party payment system was hacked. According to a press release, information entered into a third-party payment system could have been compromised back on Sept. 6 due to a security breach. Since the forensic investigation was not conducted by the vendor, Midland County…
Confidential child protection documents found ‘blowing around’ in a Leicester street
Dan Martin reports: The Probation Service is investigating after confidential child protection documents were found blowing around in a Leicester Street. The paperwork, relating to the cases of 20 children, babies and unborn youngsters, was handed into the Mercury by former Liberal Democrat city councillor John Fitch. Mr Fitch said he found the letters on…
Cyber hackers target Spain’s top court as Catalonia’s leader is threatened with 30 years in prison if he declares independence
Hacktivism is alive and well in Spain. Joshua Taylor reports: Spain’s most senior court fell victim to a massive cyber attack as hackers launched an “Operation Free Catalonia” campaign. The country’s constitutional court said unknown hackers had accessed its computer systems on Friday. The Spanish National Security Department said the hack was part of a…