(Note: a patwarkhana seems to be a property registration office) Miscreants broke into the Jhuneer patwarkhana and tore records. They also broke open the room of patwari Ashok Kumar and stole documents late last night. […] As per details, the records, which were stolen, also included an assessment register, which contained the compensation record of…
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Hackers leak Thai prison data files in ongoing protest against Koh Tao convictions
Asian Correspondent staff report: Hackers on Wednesday leaked a trove of data files stolen from Thai prison websites in their ongoing protest over the conviction and treatment of two Burmese men sentenced to death for murdering two British tourists in Koh Tao in 2014. Associating themselves with the “Anonymous” collective of hackers, they claimed to have obtained…
Manitoba Victim Services discloses confidential information to wrong person
Sean Leslie reports: A voicemail left by a victim services worker revealed confidential information about an incident concerning the welfare of a child to a person with no connection to the people involved. The voicemail contains the names and birth dates of two parents, a case number and allegations of behavior that could affect the…
Israeli border police officer indicted for leaking personal information
Noam Dvir reports on yet another “little” breach that could cause big harm to individuals involved: A Border Police officer was on Wednesday indicted for abusing his authority and violating privacy, after he allegedly passed on a woman’s personal information to the far-right Lehava organization. The incident took place in December 2014, when the officer in question,…
Former U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Employee Pleads Guilty to Attempted Spear-Phishing Cyber-Attack on Department of Energy Computers
There’s a follow-up to a case I first noted in May of 2015. Charles Harvey Eccleston, 62, a former employee of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), pleaded guilty yesterday to a federal offense stemming from an attempted e-mail “spear-phishing” attack in January 2015 that targeted dozens of DOE…
NASA Denies Hackers Hijacked Its Drone
There’s an update to a previously claimed hack involving NASA. Thomas CLaburn reports that NASA is investigating a claimed hack, but denies that its drone was hacked: “Control of our Global Hawk aircraft was not compromised,” said Beutel. “NASA has no evidence to indicate the alleged hacked data are anything other than already publicly available…