The Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data, Hong Kong (Privacy Commissioner), Mr Stephen Kai-yi WONG, expressed serious concern over the Cathay Pacific Airways data breach incident, noting that the incident might involve a vast amount of personal data (such as name, date of birth, passport number, Hong Kong Identity Card number, credit card number, etc) of…
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Two hackers behind 2016 Uber data breach have been indicted for another hack
Zack Whittaker reports: Two hackers who stole millions of users’ data from ride-hailing firm Uber have been indicted on separate hacking charges related to a data breach at online learning portal Lynda, two people familiar with the case have told TechCrunch. Vasile Mereacre, a Canadian citizen living in Toronto, and Brandon Glover, a Florida resident,…
CA: Data breach may have exposed personal information of 3,000 Girl Scouts of Orange County
Children’s medical alerts and health conditions may be breached in so many ways outside of the healthcare sector. Schools, sports clubs, camps, and yes, boy scouts and girl scouts, are just some of the organizations that may hold sensitive information that gets breached, with no report needed to HHS. Alejandra Reyes-Velarde reports: Members of the…
Data leak at consulting firm handling fundraisers for the Democratic party
Catalin Cimpanu reports: A Maryland consulting firm that handles political fundraisers for the Democratic Party has left fundraiser data and passwords to databases storing voter records exposed online via an unsecured network attached storage (NAS) device. The exposed data was found last week by Bob Diachenko, Director of Cyber Risk Research at Hacken, a cyber-security…
Hacker Guccifer, who exposed Clinton private email server, ready for US prison sentence
Catalin Cimpanu reports: Guccifer, the Romanian hacker whose shenanigans exposed the existence of Hillary Clinton’s private email server, has been released this week from a Romanian prison and can now be extradited to the US to serve a 52-month prison sentence for hacking multiple US government officials between 2012 and 2014. The 46-year-old hacker, real…
Cathay Pacific flags data breach affecting 9.4 million passengers
Reuters reports: Cathay Pacific Airways said on Wednesday (Oct 24) that data of about 9.4 million passengers of Cathay and its unit Hong Kong Dragon Airlines had been accessed without authorisation. Cathay said 860,000 passport numbers, about 245,000 Hong Kong identity card numbers, 403 expired credit card numbers and 27 credit card numbers with no…