David Rider reports: A summertime data breach exposed the names and email addresses of 174,000 Ontario Science Centre members, donors and others including customers for camps and birthday parties, the Star has learned. Campaigner, a company that does email blasts for the provincially owned tourist attraction, informed the science centre on Aug. 16 that “someone…
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UKIP leader suspended over data theft allegations
BBC reports: UKIP has suspended its leader and three other members after they were accused of stealing data from the party. An email to all members from chairman Kirstan Herriot said she was “forced to take serious action” against Richard Braine, Tony Sharp, Jeff Armstrong and Mark Dent. This included reporting them to Action Fraud…
The Untold Story of the 2018 Olympics Cyberattack, the Most Deceptive Hack in History
Andy Greenberg reports: Just before 8 pm on February 9, 2018, high in the northeastern mountains of South Korea, Sang-jin Oh was sitting on a plastic chair a few dozen rows up from the floor of Pyeongchang’s vast, pentagonal Olympic Stadium. He wore a gray and red official Olympics jacket that kept him warm despite the…
NZ: Winston Peters refers breach of NZ First party members’ information to police, Privacy Commissioner
Derek Cheng reports: New Zealand First leader Winston Peters says a “disgruntled source” is behind a series of leaks and a serious data breach, and is referring them to police and the Privacy Commissioner. Peters, who is also Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister, said on Twitter this evening that the information sent to media…
UK: IT contractor jailed for fraud offenses against vulnerable people
The Metropolitan Police issued the following news release: Graham Broomfield, 54 (5.01.65) of Tye Green Village, Harlow was sentenced to five years’ imprisonment at Snaresbrook Crown Court on Friday, 20 September. He had previously pleaded guilty to fraud by abuse of position. Detective Sergeant Gemma Cole, from the Specialist Crime Command, said: “Broomfield’s crimes were…
People’s Party candidate Steven Fletcher accused of taking voter data from Conservatives
Ahmar Khan reports: Repurposed lawn signs are not the only thing People’s Party of Canada candidate Steven Fletcher is being accused of taking from his former party. The Conservative Electoral District Association of Charleswood-St. James-Assiniboia-Headingley alleges Fletcher, a four-time Conservative MP and former cabinet minister, took electronic voter data that belonged to them. CBC News…