Amanda Moore reports: A Grimsby business owner is scrambling after her laptop, cash and cheques were stolen from her studio. Last week, Kimberley Whittemore, owner of Balanced Being Fitness Inc., returned to the studio from a coffee break downstairs at Station One to find the computer missing. The laptop, an older Toshiba model, contained hundreds…
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AU: City To Bay Fun Run: Hacker suspected of viewing personal details on website
ABC reports: Adelaide police are investigating whether someone hacked the City To Bay Fun Run website and took personal details. Part of the website has been taken offline and online entries suspended because of the possible security breach. The fun run committee said an unauthorised person might have viewed the names, email details and in…
UK: Estate agent data breach leaves customers open to ID theft
From the Information Commissioner’s Office: The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has taken action after a London estate agent continued to leave papers containing personal information on the street despite a previous warning. On 11 December 2013, the ICO was informed that an outlet owned by Thamesview Estate Agents was leaving papers containing personal information in…
Security breach in NIC, critical data at risk
Salkat Datta reports: A major security breach of the National Informatics Centre (NIC), which runs all the emails of senior officials and websites of all central government departments, allowed hackers to issue several fraudulent digital certificates, raising global concerns about India’s net security practices. The NIC is one of the select few authorised entities allowed…
Global hacking attack hits four Hong Kong telecoms firms
Danny Lee reports: Four of the city’s biggest internet service providers fell victim to an international cyberattack that also affected 10,000 patients’ health records held by Chinese University. Servers at PCCW, Netvigator, Hong Kong Broadband Network (HKBN) and Hutchison Global Communications were among more than half a million targeted globally. The hackers succeeded in the…
SuperValu renews link with LoyaltyBuild
Caroline O’Doherty reports: SuperValu has resumed its leisure breaks scheme with the company that lost the personal details of more than 60,000 of its customers. The supermarket chain got back into business with Loyaltybuild after what it described as “a long period of consultation, during which Loyaltybuild made a significant investment updating its security features…