Peter Edwards reports: Toronto police are denying the allegations in a U.S. court document that says names and addresses of more than 500 confidential police informants were hacked by an online group led by a former U.S. navy nuclear systems administrator. The tiny American group, known as “Team Digi7al,” successfully attacked Toronto police computers between…
Category: Non-U.S.
France’s Orange says telecom’s client data stolen – again
In February, I noted a breach involving 800,000 Orange customers that occurred in January. Now Reuters reports: French telecoms group Orange said around 1.3 million subscribers or potential subscribers fell victim to a theft of personal data, including telephone numbers, dates of birth and email addresses, last month. […] In mid-April, hackers accessed a software…
UK: Lucia Bar in ‘shocking’ privacy breach
Anwen Baker reports: Lucia Wine Bar and Grill have been accused of breaking data protection laws after the CVs of over 600 people, including York students, were uploaded to their website. The CVs and cover letters of 605 people who had applied online to work at Lucia, which has branches in York and Beverley, were…
Hanoi spyware gang steals money from 100,000 cellphone users
Thanh Nien News reports: Hanoi police said Tuesday they had arrested four suspects accused of using spyware to steal money from 100,000 Vietnamese mobile phone users. Three employees of Hanoi-based Soloha construction company and a website owner allegedly lured mobile phone users to download malicious apps from their websites. The apps made automatic VND15,000 deposits…
AU: Multicard leaks data online in privacy breach: OAIC
Aime Chanthadavong reports: Identification card solutions provider, Multicard, has been found to have leaked the personal information of approximately 9,000 maritime security identity card (MSIC) applicants online. The Office of the Australian Information Commission (OAIC) found that Multicard stored personal information on a publicly accessible web server without appropriate security controls to prevent unauthorised access….
Eircom urges email users to change passwords after security breach
Adrian Weckler reports: Eircom has suffered a security breach, leading to the suspension of email services to 350,000 Eircom.net accounts over the last 18 hours. The company is now urging its email users to change their passwords. A company spokesman said that the breach was detected on Tuesday. Read more on Independent.ie.