Alex Evans reports: Confidential data has been lost, misplaced or leaked by Sheffield Council 22 times since February 2012, The Star can reveal today. The information includes eight letters sent to the wrong address and a document which contained children’s names going missing. In one breach, a spreadsheet naming 1,729 people who received payments from…
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AU: Telstra ordered to pay AU$18K over privacy breach
Leon Spencer reports: The Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC) has ordered Telstra to pay AU$18,000 and apologise to a judge after it failed to tell him it had published his details in the White Pages directory. According to the OAIC, the unnamed judge — identified only as “DK” — contacted Telstra to have…
UK: Met Police computer hacker given community order by judge who says he was used as a ‘stooge’
Gareth Lightfoot reports: A teenage computer wiz who attacked the Metropolitan Police website has kept his freedom as a judge said he was used as a “stooge”. Jordan Jones, 19, was vulnerable and “preyed upon” by people who take pleasure in hacking high-level computers, a court heard. He since used his talents for good as a “poacher…
U.K.: ICO imposes monetary penalty on hotel booking site following SQL injection breach in 2013
A press release from the ICO: The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) is warning organisations that they must make sure their websites are protected against one of the most common forms of online attack – known as SQL injection. The warning comes after the hotel booking website, Worldview Limited, was fined £7,500 following a serious data breach where…
Philippines Dept of Trade and Industry Hacked, Login Details Leaked by Anonymous
Waqas writes: An online hacktivist going with the handle of Anonymous Leyte has claimed to hack in to the official website of Philippines‘s Department of Trade & Industry (DTI) (http://bps.dti.gov.ph), ending up with leaking login details of 1900+ members online yesterday. In an exclusive chat with hacker, we were told that reason for hacking the DIT’s website is to register a protest against the mishandling…
AU: Customs issue new notice linking customs brokers to identity theft
Andrew Hudson of Gadens Lawyers write: The CBFCA National Conference is currently in session in the Gold Coast and many of the early sessions (including mine) have addressed the relationship between the Australian Customs and Border Protection Service (“Customs”) and those who deal with and report to Customs such as licensed customs brokers (“LCB”). …….