David Hollingworth reports: A collective claiming to be behind Qantas’ recent cyber hack sent the airline nine pages of data it had apparently stolen from customers and then demanded a reply within 72 hours. The threat was revealed in documents that the Flying Kangaroo submitted to court to obtain an injunction, which has, for the first…
Category: Non-U.S.
Au: Junior doctor faces fresh toilet spying charges as probe widens to other major hospitals
Erin Pearson reports on a case of insider-wrongdoing/snooping that is sure to have a lot of Australian patients worried whether they were filmed or not: Fresh charges have been laid against a suspended doctor accused of hiding a secret recording device in the staff toilet of a Melbourne hospital. Police re-arrested Ryan Cho at a…
Russia suspected of hacking Dutch prosecution service systems
Dutch News reports: There are “strong indications” that Russia was behind a cyber attack on the Dutch public prosecution department’s internal systems, justice ministry sources have told the AD. The affected systems contain sensitive information on ongoing police investigations and court cases, as well as personal data on staff. The department has not yet said…
Korea imposes 343 million won penalty on HAESUNG DS for data breach of 70,000 shareholders
Kim Su-jeong reports: The Personal Information Protection Commission announced on the 24th that it imposed a penalty surcharge of 343 million won [USD $250,136.73] on HAESUNG DS, a semiconductor parts company, after it left vulnerabilities in its network security equipment unattended, resulting in a hacker attack that leaked personal information of over 70,000 shareholders. According…
IVF provider Genea notifies patients about the cyberattack earlier this year.
In February, DataBreaches reported that an incident involving Australia IVF giant Genea was the work of the Termite gang, who had posted proof of claims and also claimed to have 700 GB of files. Apparently, Genea still hasn’t revealed that to those affected, who only now are receiving notifications that their data was involved and…
Key figure behind major Russian-speaking cybercrime forum targeted in Ukraine
More details have emerged on the arrest of an alleged XSS.is administrator by Ukrainian cyber police. The seizure notice has now appeared on the .onion version of the forum, and threads have been totally removed. As of the time of this update, and while the forum could still be updated before the seizure notice replaced…