Zhao Wen of The Shanghai Daily reports that a suspect has been detained in the CSDN breach that made headlines in December: The suspect surnamed Zeng was held in Wenzhou, eastern Zhejiang Province on February 4 after Beijing police opened an investigation into the case on December 22, the paper said. The leak, considered the…
Category: Non-U.S.
UK: 8,000 students caught up in email security breach
Graeme Paton reports: The details of more than 8,000 students were sent out by Student Finance England as part of a mass email distribution following a blunder by staff. Last night, the agency apologised for the error which they put down an administrative error. It has since contacted all students involved to assure them that…
‘Indian call centres accused of selling Britons’ personal data for as little as two pence’
Deja vu all over again: Indian call centres are selling Britons’ confidential personal data, including credit card information, medical and financial records to criminals and marketing firms for as little as two pence, an undercover investigation has discovered. Two ‘consultants’, claiming to be IT workers at several call centres boasted of possesing 45 different sets…
Inside Telstra’s customer information breach
Darren Pauli has a follow-up piece in SC Magazine on how Telstra responded to a breach it had in December where thousands of customers’ data were exposed online.
Police look into firm’s database of private info…. on 150 million! (updated)
We saw reports on some huge data breaches out of China last summer. Some of them, we learned, were not necessarily hacks but employees leaking data. Here’s another report of people allegedly behaving very badly. Xu Chi reports: Shanghai police are investigating a local company that reportedly illegally collected private information of more than 150…
Ca: Private info of 4,600 B.C. students leaked
Darcy Wintonyk reports: The leak of private information for thousands of accounting students was the result of an “unfortunate error,” according to the Certified General Accountants Association of B.C. An email sent to 2,300 CGA students on Tuesday accidentally contained an Excel spreadsheet containing personal data of about 4,600 of its students. The spreadsheet included…