Wow. He Dan reports: Police across the country have arrested more than 1,700 people on suspicion of stealing or misusing personal information, according to the Ministry of Public Security. Under the ministry’s deployment, police in 20 provincial-level regions, including Beijing and Shanxi, uncovered 38 operations where people’s personal details were being illegally traded, according to…
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UK: Police officer on trial for using files to vet one of his wife’s tenants
A police officer has gone on trial accused of using a police station computer to vet one of his wife’s tenants. Harry To, a constable with Fife Constabulary, is said to have accessed the force’s “Crimefile” computerised recording system without authority on seven occasions. Read more on STV. Long-time readers realize that this is not…
UK: Web exposure breach at Toshiba last summer revealed … today?
Toshiba Information Systems (UK) have breached the Data Protection Act (DPA) after the personal details of 20 competition entrants were compromised by a security flaw on their website, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) said today. The ICO was informed by a member of the public in September last year that the personal details of individuals…
Computer specialist who had warned Iranian banks about vulnerability, hacks and dumps 3 million accounts to make his point
Is it just me, or have these folks missed the point? From The Tehran Times: A computer specialist, who used to work for a PSP (payment service provider) company which offers a number of Iranian banks services for accepting electronic payments, has hacked accounts of three million bank customers to show the vulnerability of the…
BPAS hacker sentenced to jail
James Jeffery, who pleaded guilty to hacking the British Pregnancy Advisory Service in March, has been sentenced to two years and eight months in jail.
Do red flags on credit files really protect us?
Jason Proctor reports: A Burnaby, B.C., man who spent the past year besieged by identity thieves says RCMP have linked his case to a major arrest. Paul Wright says criminals have repeatedly managed to change personal information on his TransUnion Credit Bureau profile. One of the addresses placed on his file was the site of…