Roger Belgrave reports: The Catholic school board has beefed-up its computer network security after one of its high school students hacked into the system last spring. Under direction from Ontario Information and Privacy Commissioner, the Dufferin-Peel Catholic District School Board has posted details of the computer security breach on its website at www.dpcdsb.org. Read more…
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B.C.: Security breach triggers warning to some toll bridge users
Jeff Nagel reports: More than 270 drivers who have just registered for the new Port Mann Bridge tolling system are being warned a privacy breach may have compromised their accounts. An unauthorized employee who got the job in the Coquitlam service centre under false pretences and took the registrations of affected drivers by phone was…
Police shed light on Japan’s black market for personal info
I just read an interesting news piece related to the previous blog entry on the black market sale of personal information in Japan. It seems that Japan’s personal information protection law which went into effect in 2005 created the market, and one group made almost $11 million using employees of numerous companies to provide the…
JP: Suspects arrested in data leak probe made 100 million yen selling personal info
The Mainichi reports: A group of eight men under arrest for illegally obtaining and leaking personal information raked in nearly 100 million yen by selling information from family registries they had illegally obtained over the past five years, investigative sources said. But the 100 million yen – U.S. $1,282,780.00 – wasn’t their only profits. According…
AU: Thousands siphoned in bank ID scam
Peter Bodkin reports on an insider breach in the financial sector: Three men who committed a “sophisticated” identity-theft scam siphoned thousands of dollars from the accounts of unsuspecting bank customers using confidential inside information. Jason Urrutia, 36, an IT manager with five years experience at the Commonwealth Bank used his role with the company to…
FL: Server at Chili’s accused of stealing card numbers
An all-too-common insider breach in the hospitality sector: Investigators say a server at a DeLand Chili’s restaurant stole customers’ bank card numbers and went on a shopping spree. They said Niquarus Rawls managed to rack up $24,000 before he was caught. Read more on WDBO.