Seen on The Australian, but not on News Corp Australia’s web site: This afternoon News Corp Australia was made aware of a vulnerability in the security of our email newsletter database. Some personal information about people who subscribe to our email newsletters was potentially accessible from outside the company. The information does not include credit…
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AU: Telco AAPT breached Privacy Act, Melbourne IT given all-clear
Michael Lee reports: Australian Privacy Commissioner Timothy Pilgrim has found AAPT to be in breach of the Privacy Act after it was hacked and failed to secure customer information. That information was held on Melbourne IT’s systems. At the time of the incident, Melbourne IT CEO Theo Hnarakis told ZDNet that “whether it’s current, whether it’s historic, it’s not…
Mass security breach of fast food payment systems in South Africa via variant of Dexter malware (update 1)
Duncan McLeod reports: South Africa’s banks have suffered tens of millions of rand in losses due to a major breach of customer card data by criminal syndicates that infected electronic point-of-sale (POS) devices using a variant of malicious software called Dexter. It’s not known exactly how many POS devices were infected by the malware, but…
ICO reminds organizations of need for BYOD policies to protect data
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) is reminding organizations that they must make sure that their data protection policies reflect how the modern workforce are using personal devices for work. With a YouGov survey earlier this year showing that 47% of all UK employees now use their smartphone, tablet PC or other portable device for work purposes there…
Kiwibank apologizes after privacy breach
Nicholas McBride of the Greymouth Star reports: Kiwibank has apologised to all customers affected by a privacy breach at the Greymouth branch. An envelope full of confidential documents was handed to a member of the public when they went into the Post Shop office last month. The individual took it home and opened it, unaware…
Fine Gael website hackers spared jail sentences
Remember the hack of the FineGael web site and data dump back in 2011? RTÉ News has this update: Two students, who hacked Fine Gael’s 2011 election website have been spared jail sentences and left with clean records. Darren Martyn (21) from Cloonbeggin, Claregalway, Galway, and 20-year-old Donnacha O Cearbhaill from The Ring, Birr, Co….