A financial penalty of $14,000 was imposed on Nature Society (Singapore) for breaches of the PDPA. First, the organisation failed to put in place reasonable measures to protect personal data on its website database. Second, it did not appoint a data protection officer. Lastly, it did not have written policies and practices necessary to comply…
Category: Hack
Ransomware gang behind attacks on 50 companies arrested in Ukraine
Catalin Cimpanu reports: Ukrainian authorities have detained five members part of a ransomware gang that carried out attacks against more than 50 companies across Europe and the Americas. The arrests, which took place earlier this week, targeted the group’s leader, a 36-year-old Kyiv resident, his wife, and three acquaintances. Officials said the group hacked into…
Hackers Raided Panasonic Server for Months, Stealing Personal Data of Job Seekers
Graham Cluley writes: Tech giant Panasonic has confirmed that one of its servers suffered a data breach which saw the personal information of job applicants accessed by an unauthorised party. The security breach, which saw hackers illegally access a Panasonic file server located in Japan via an overseas subsidiary, began on June 22 2021, and only ended…
South African justice department clueless about hacked data
It’s not exactly the headline you’d want for your agency, but that’s what MyBroadband came up with for this report by Myles Illidge: The Department of Justice and Constitutional Development (DoJ&CD) has no idea whether any data was stolen during a ransomware attack on its systems in September 2021. “The Department cannot tell with certainty as to…
Major Indian fashion retailer hacked and data leaked
Another major Indian firm has fallen prey to a massive cyberattack. This time, the victim is a Fortune India 500 List company: Mumbai-headquartered Aditya Birla Group (ABG). The conglomerate includes Aditya Birla Fashion and Retail Ltd. (ABFRL) as well as businesses in other sectors. ABFRL, formed after the merger of Madura Fashion & Lifestyle and…
Ph: Comelec investigating alleged data breach ahead of #Halalan2022
Update of January 12: A Comelec official has called the report of a breach “fake news.” See ABS-CBN for update. Ina Reformina and Jauhn Etienne Villaruel report: The Commission on Elections (Comelec) has suffered another data breach with 4 months to go before the crucial May national elections, a Manila Bulletin report claimed Monday, saying…