On October 27, Business Tech reported: Vodacom is providing information which uniquely identifies you as a subscriber to websites you visit while on its data network. This was revealed by an online tool created by security researcher, Kenneth White. Among the data, Vodacom subscribers are inadvertently providing to web servers their phone number and a…
Category: Non-U.S.
NZ: Victim in fear after court privacy breach
Hamish McNeilly provides yet another example of how “small” breaches can cause great harm or distress for individuals: A Dunedin man says he is living in fear after a Family Court privacy breach resulted in his address being sent to his brother, who had allegedly threatened to kill him. The Family Court has apologised for…
Pirate Bay Founder Convicted on Hacking Charges; Sentenced to 3.5 Years
Following up on a news story posted yesterday: Over on Wired, Kim Zetter has additional details on the trial and conviction of Pirate Bay co-founder Gottrid Svartholm Warg.
Quebec court rules in lost personal data case: no fraud, no theft, no class action
Prachi Shah of Clyde & Co. provides an update on litigation stemming from a lost device case previously noted on this blog: Paul Sofio v. OCRCVM (IIROC), 2014 QCCS 4061 (under appeal) – The Quebec Superior Court refuses to authorize a class action where the loss of personal data did not result in fraud or identity…
Pirate Bay founder guilty of hacking CSC; largest hacking case in Danish history
The Local reports: The largest hacking case in Danish history has ended with guilty verdicts for Pirate Bay co-founder Gottrid Svartholm Warg and his 21-year-old Danish co-defendant ‘JLT’. Warg, the Swedish co-founder of Pirate Bay, was found guilty of hacking into the mainframe of IT giant CSC between February and August of 2012. JLT was…
South African firms complacent about attacks
IT-Online reports: Mobile security breaches have affected 58% of South African organisations in the last 12 months. Despite this, they are still not taking sufficient security measures to protect themselves against mobile threats, such as lost or stolen devices and malware infections. In fact, the new study from BT reveals that more than two fifths…