A hacker broke into the website of the Sinterklaas television news show and stole personal information about 13,000 children, including names, dates of birth and e-mail addresses, website Tweakers.net reported on Tuesday. NTR, the broadcasting company responsible for the programme, told Tweakers the information was contained in a part of the database where the security…
Category: Non-U.S.
What They Didn’t Know: Big Brother Watch report on breaches highlights why we need mandatory disclosure
Mainstream media in the U.K. have picked up on a new report based on data obtained under freedom of information requests by Big Brother Watch (BBW). The Guardian reports, ” Councils breached personal data 1,035 times over three years,” while BBC’s headline is “Personal data ‘lost by 132 councils,” and eWeek’s headline is “132 Councils Named And…
AU: ADP exposes client emails
Michael Lee reports: Payroll services company ADP Australia has inadvertently made a marketing email list accessible on the internet, exposing its customers to spam and phishing messages. The list, which ADP said was dated 2007, was being used at the time to send out ADP client newsletters. The company said the list only contained email…
UK: Southwark Council warned after personal data was missing for two years
The London Borough of Southwark Council breached the Data Protection Act by misplacing a computer and papers containing 7,200 peoples’ personal information which were discovered in a dumpster earlier this year. In a press release issued today , the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) said the computer and papers were mistakenly left at one of the…
Another data breach revealed in Finland
The third large-scale data security breach in the space of a few days was revealed in Finland on Wednesday, with usernames, passwords and email addresses belonging to about 12,000 users of Netcar, a used car website, posted on the internet. A person claiming responsibility for the breach said they had no links to Anonymous Finland,…
Computer IDs, passwords of Japan lawmakers leaked
The computer IDs and passwords of all the lawmakers in the House of Representatives were leaked during recent cyber-attacks against the lower house’s server and personal computers, it has been revealed. In a report released Monday, the lower house also said e-mails sent to its lawmakers might have been accessible to hackers for a maximum…