The420.in reports: The Delhi Police have arrested 18 individuals for duping State Bank of India (SBI) credit card holders of nearly ₹2.6 crore [USD $296,630.45] in a nationwide fraud. The operation, which ran for six months, relied on insider leaks at a Gurugram-based call centre and a sophisticated money-laundering network that spanned cash deals and…
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Thousands more Afghans affected by second data breach, ministers say
Serena Barker-Singh reports: Up to 3,700 Afghans brought to the UK between January and March 2024 have potentially been impacted as names, passport details and information from the Afghan Relocations and Assistance Policy has been compromised again, this time by a breach on a third party supplier used by the Ministry of Defence (MoD). This was not…
UK: HMRC sacks dozens of staff for snooping on taxpayers
Neil Shaw reports: HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) has revealed that hundreds of staff have accessed the records of taxpayers without permission or breached security in other ways. HMRC dismissed 50 members of staff last year for accessing or risking the exposure of taxpayers’ records, according to The Telegraph. 354 tax employees have been disciplined for…
Children’s Health Ireland faces investigation over data breach of health records at Tallaght Hospital
Andrew Walsh reports: The Data Protection Commission (DPC) has launched a formal inquiry into Children’s Health Ireland (CHI) following concerns about the security of children’s health records at its Tallaght University Hospital (TUH) facility. The inquiry comes after the DPC received information from multiple sources, including protected disclosures and a breach notification submitted by CHI….
NL: Hacked lab paid ransom: ‘Millions of euros demanded’
The following is a machine translation of an article by Daniel Verlaan: The hacked Clinical Diagnostics laboratory in Rijswijk has paid a ransom to the cybercriminals. Ransomware group Nova, responsible for the hack, confirmed this to RTL Nieuws. The laboratory hopes the payment will prevent more stolen data and medical records of Dutch citizens from…
NL: Hackers breach cancer screening data of almost 500,000 women
Dutch News reports: Hackers have accessed the personal data of almost 500,000 women who participated in mass screenings for cervical cancer, research agency Bevolkingsonderzoek Nederland has said. The data breach, which took place at the test processing lab Clinical Diagnostics NMDL in Rijswijk in the first week of July, included the names and addresses of some…