Oscar Liu reports: Two public hospital doctors have been granted bail after being arrested in Hong Kong on suspicion of leaking a cancer patient’s medical data to highlight alleged professional shortcomings by her operating surgeon. Observers, meanwhile, said that although the incident did not align with the principles of “whistle-blowing”, it underscored the need for…
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Huge Fines Imposed by Thailand’s PDPC: A Major Alert on Data Privacy Violations (Thailand)
Shunsuke Minowa and Poonyisa Sornchangwat of Nagashima Ohno & Tsunematsu write: 1. Background On 1 August 2025, Thailand’s Personal Data Protection Committee (“PDPC”) announced the issuance of 8 fines totaling THB 14.5 million (approximately USD 448,000), which were levied against one government agency and other private entities for non-compliance with the Personal Data Protection Act of 2019 (“PDPA”)…
EuroFins cancer screening hack far bigger than thought, agency says
DutchNews.nl reports: The scale of a data theft from a Dutch national screening programme laboratory is far greater than initially reported, research agency Bevolkingsonderzoek Nederland said on Friday. Hackers may have accessed the personal and medical details of all 941,000 women who have taken part in the cervical cancer screening programme since 2017, the agency said in…
Fake ID website busted; Dutch police deal a blow to criminal infrastructure
The following is a machine translation of a press release at politie.nl: On August 27, the Rotterdam Police Cybercrime Team seized data from the VerifTools website’s servers during a seizure at a data center in Amsterdam. The operation was carried out in collaboration with the FBI, which simultaneously took the platform offline. VerifTools is considered…
South Korea fines SK Telecom US$97M over data breach
A big monetary penalty was anticipated for SK Telecom after a massive data breach. Now we know how big. Muhammad Zulhusni reports: South Korea’s biggest mobile carrier has been hit with a record fine after a massive data breach exposed the personal details of nearly half the country’s people. The Personal Information Protection Commission (PIPC)…
Taiwanese associated with Chinese group behind cyberattacks arrested
Keoni Everington reports: Two alleged Taiwanese clients of a Chinese ransomware group behind attacks on the Mackay Memorial Hospital and other targets in Taiwan have been arrested and released on bail. According to a Ministry of Justice Investigation Bureau, between February and March, the group CrazyHunter used ransomware to attack hospitals, publicly listed companies, and…