Cameron Atfield reports: Brisbane’s CityCycle bike hire scheme has been embroiled in a massive privacy breach, with the email addresses of all its subscribers distributed in an email this afternoon. The addresses of 1306 CityCycle users were all included in the “to” field of an email sent to subscribers at 5.12pm today. The email was…
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NSW officer charged with unauthorised computer access
From AAP: A NSW Police officer has been charged over what police describe as “unauthorised computer access”. The offence allegedly occurred in August last year and involves an officer who was part of the North West Metropolitan Region. The constable has been served with a court attendance notice and is expected to appear at Parramatta…
UK: Child’s police station interview discovered dumped at bus station
Mark Mcgivern reports: Confidential police videos of a little girl telling officers about alleged violent child abuse have been found at a bus station. Last night, the shocking breach of privacy over the six-year-old’s harrowing interview was the subject of an urgent inquiry. Senior Strathclyde Police officers admitted they were unsure if the tapes –…
UK: Hailsham hacker ordered to pay back £124,000
Ben Parsons reports: A computer hacker from Hailsham who set up frauds to feed a gambling habit has been ordered to pay more than £100,000. Alistair Peckover – described by police as an “obsessive loner” – used websites including Google and BT to steal people’s bank details. […] Peckover, who previously lived in Broadfield, Crawley,…
28 million Plenty of Fish users’ personal details hacked – report (updated)
The founder and CEO of dating site Plenty of Fish reports that the site has been hacked and users’ names, email addresses, and passwords may have been acquired. Whether PayPal account information and other personal details were also acquired is uncertain and depends on whose version of the hack you read. It’s also uncertain whether…
Data breaches triple in space of a year
The Irish Independent reports: Incidents of data breaches tripled last year, with more than 400 instances reported, according to the Office of the Data Protection Commission. A number of probes have been launched into civil servants suspected of accessing information about individuals out of curiosity, or for profit. But some data leaks out through human…