Stewart Mitchell reports: Personal details of thousands of Sun readers have been posted online following the hack attack on News International last month. The paper’s parent company News International sent out warning letters to readers explaining that compromised information could have been posted online in the wake of the 19 July attack. […] “Details vary, but could…
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Kr: Nate, Cyworld users pursue class action amid identity theft fears
Kim Yoo-chul reports: The situation can’t get any worse for SK Communications, the operator of Cyworld and Nate, following a hacking attack that compromised the personal information of 35 million of its customers. Stock prices of the Internet unit of the telecommunications giant SK Telecom plummeted. Officials admitted that the recent data loss may taint…
(Update) Ru: Web Stores Sued Over Data Leaks
Khristina Narizhnaya reports: An independent consumer rights watchdog has sued 10 of about 80 online stores whose customers’ personal information became available last week on the Internet, hoping to set a precedent for further privacy breach lawsuits. The Consumer Union of Russia wants the companies to admit that they broke the law by not preventing…
IN: Man nabbed for data theft
S Ahmed Ali reports: MUMBAI: A private data consultancy firm employee, who quit the job after allegedly selling data to a rival company for money, was arrested by sleuths of the Mumbai Cyber cell on Thursday. Sagar Deepak More, 28, a data executive with a US-based company in Mumbai, was arrested under the Information Technology…
UK: ICO calls for prison sentences for use of stolen data
Warwick Ashford reports: The UK should introduce prison sentences for using stolen personal data, says Information Commissioner Christopher Graham. He is calling for an effective deterrent to the “routine trashing of individuals’ rights” under the Data Protection Act, according to according to Bloomberg. The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) proposed a two-year prison term in 2006 after investigating the sale of stolen…
AU: Credit card details hacked at Horsham business
Police at Horsham, in the state’s west, say the computer system of a Horsham business has been hacked and people’s credit card details stolen. For legal reasons, police are not identifying which business had its computer remotely accessed. There have now been 60 complaints of unauthorised use of cards from the Wimmera Mallee, but police…