Tim Lohman reports: The Privacy Commissioner’s report into the alleged privacy breach of some four million Vodafone customers’ billing and call records has found failings on the telco’s behalf. The report noted two key areas of the National Privacy Principles, NPP 2.1 and NPP 4.1, which applied to the incident. NPP 2.1 states that organisations…
Category: Non-U.S.
BC Lotteries online site has fixed privacy glitches, report finds
Chad Skelton reports the follow-up on a breach previously covered on this blog: BC Lotteries did not take adequate steps to protect privacy when it launched its PlayNow.com online gambling site last summer, according to an investigation by B.C. Information and Privacy Commissioner Elizabeth Denham. However, Denham concludes BCLC has since taken steps to address…
New Hampshire man to be sentenced in international scheme using malware to generate calls to premium phone numbers
On February 28, 2011, Asu Pala, a 37 year-old New Hampshire man will be sentenced for his role in an international computer hacking conspiracy that earned him nearly $8 million. On April 21, 2010, Pala of Hudson, NH, pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit computer fraud and five counts of failure to…
Hacker Blackmails Nintendo With Personal Data From 4,000 Gamers
Warren Riddle reports: Earlier this month, an unnamed hacker reportedly infiltrated a Nintendo 3DS promotional site and uncovered the names, e-mail addresses and postal codes of 4,000 Nintendo members. The assailant then allegedly blackmailed Nintendo because he believed “the firm had shown negligence in not securing the information more effectively.” According to Naked Security, Nintendo alerted the…
Lush web sites in AU and NZ also hacked
Last month, this blog reported that the UK site of Lush cosmetics had been hacked. Three weeks later, Lush customers in Australia and New Zealand are being notified by email that those Lush sites were hacked as well. The breaches occur to be separate hacks and reportedly only affect those who placed orders online. The…
UK: Treasury does well out of local data breaches
Taxpayers’ money is being used to pay hundreds of thousands of pounds of fines imposed on councils for data protection breaches. In the past two months, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has fined councils more than £350,000 for falling foul of laws. Defending the decisions the ICO said the purpose of monetary penalties is to…