Oliver Shah reports Preparations for Nisa Retail’s annual meeting tomorrow have been disrupted by a damaging leak of members’ data. A whistleblower at the convenience store supplier, which has a turnover of £1.6bn, drew attention to the circulation of a spreadsheet containing shareholders’ addresses, phone numbers and online passwords. The data, seen by The Sunday Times,…
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National Express print-at-home vulnerability
Paul writes: National Express are one of the biggest public transport companies in the UK with a huge fleet of coaches and trains. This vulnerability discloses customers information to a potential attacker such as the passengers names, destination, last 4 digits of the card, price the customer paid for the tickets and of course the…
Benesse ordered to improve personal info management after data theft
Kyodo News provides an update to a breach involving education services provider Benesse. The breach was disclosed in July: The industry ministry on Friday ordered Benesse Corp. to improve its management of personal information after the company was embroiled in Japan’s biggest-ever data theft. The company’s investigative team has found that some 28.95 million customers…
UK: Three Aberdeen council workers sacked for breaching data protection rules
David Ewen reports: Three Aberdeen council workers have been sacked for accessing private information about people, the Evening Express can reveal today. The former employees of Aberdeen City Council got their marching orders after breaching the Data Protection Act. A further nine members of staff were reprimanded for misconduct, which included leaking information from a…
Operation Harkonnen Malware disguised as ‘harmless Adware’
Michael Shuff reports: Further details are emerging today of the methods used in the massive and long-lasting Operation Harkonnen cyber attack (‘Harkonnen Hack’) methodology that has allegedly exposed the data of 300 leading European organisations since 2003. The victims of the German gang thought to be responsible include banks, government organisations and major corporations, most…
Data on up to 750,000 Japan Airlines mileage club members may have leaked
Kyodo reports: Japan Airlines Co. said Wednesday that personal information on up to 750,000 JAL mileage club members may have leaked after someone gained unauthorized access to the company’s computer system The data include members’ names, addresses, birthdays and email addresses, the company said, adding that it has not confirmed the leak of passwords or…