John Leyden provides some historical context to the UK’s computer crime law: This week marks the 30th anniversary of arrests in the infamous Prestel hack case. It led to arrests, breached the Royal Family’s security and helped give birth to the UK’s first computer crime law. What began as a hack against the Prestel Viewdata…
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Ca: Privacy breaches put personal info in wrong hands
Peter Cowan and Rob Antle of CBC News reveal more of what they found in the government’s response to a freedom of information request. In fact, 177 separate privacy breaches were reported by different government departments and agencies to the Office of Public Engagement over a recent period of nearly four years. CBC Investigates obtained…
CNA-Qatar salary, data breach in 2011 affected hundreds
Rob Antle reports: The College of the North Atlantic campus in Qatar (CNA-Q) discovered two serious privacy breaches in the span of two weeks in late 2011, including one that saw the salary information of hundreds of employees inadvertently revealed. That’s according to government records obtained through access to information by CBC Investigates. Read more…
Ca: Probe says there was no security breach – this time
Peter Jackson reports that William Lorimer’s claims of a breach involving botnets and government servers were not confirmed by EWA-Canada, who conducted an investigation of his claims: EWA-Canada found that both alerts were likely false alarms. But in its conclusions, EWA condemned how the office handled the situation, saying there were no formal procedures in place to…
Ca: Privacy commissioner calls for prosecution over Rob Ford privacy breach
Olivia Carville reports: Ontario’s privacy commissioner is calling for the two health professionals who allegedly snooped into former mayor Rob Ford’s medical records to face prosecution. If the duo is convicted, this would mark the first successful prosecution under the province’s health privacy law, which came into force more than a decade ago. Read more…
SG: Details of more than 1,900 pupils from Henry Park Primary School leaked
Irene Tham reports an e-mail gaffe exposed the data of Singapore students: The personal data of more than 1,900 pupils from Henry Park Primary School was leaked two weeks ago, in the second such case reported here since patrons of karaoke chain K Box had their details exposed last September. A Microsoft Excel spreadsheet containing…