Out-Law.com reports: Businesses should not need to notify consumers that their personal data has been lost or stolen if the data has been encrypted, EU ministers have said. Ministers in the Justice and Home Affairs Committee of the EU’s Council of Ministers backed the plans as part of a wider partial agreement reached last week on…
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Benesse leak accused admits copying customer data, but says he did not know it was wrong
Kyodo News reports: A systems engineer on Tuesday admitted copying information about millions of customers from the computer servers of education service provider Benesse Corp., but he told a court he did not know the data was confidential. Masaomi Matsuzaki, 39, was appearing at the Tachikawa Branch of the Tokyo District Court, in the first…
In support of Hong Kong protesters, Anonymous releases data from Chinese government sites
Chris Luo reports: The Anonymous group of computer hackers yesterday followed up on its threat made on Friday to release data from mainland government websites. It released hundreds of phone numbers and email addresses of the Ningbo Free Trade Zone in Zhejiang province and a job-search site run by the Changxing county administration, also in…
Hackers cut deal to work for Cambodian gov’t
Buth Reaksmey Kongkea reported this on October 1: Two members of “hacktivist” group Anonymous Cambodia convicted of computer hacking yesterday will be spared further jail time. Instead, they have been ordered to put their “excellent” IT skills to use combating cybercrime in the Ministry of Interior. Bun King Mongkolpanha, 21, alias “Black Cyber”, and Chou…
Working Paper: Data Breaches in Europe: Reported Breaches of Compromised Personal Records in Europe, 2005‐2014
Frederik Borgesius made me aware of this paper of note: Data Breaches in Europe: Reported Breaches of Compromised Personal Records in Europe, 2005‐2014 Philip N. Howard CMDS Working Paper 2014.1 Center for Media, Data and Society School of Public Policy Central European University October, 2014 From the Executive Summary, the major findings over the past…
The growing problem of identity theft and mandatory breach notification
Éloïse Gratton writes: Last spring I was invited to testify and present with Dr. Avner Levin before the Standing Committee on Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics, House of Commons, in the context of their study conducted on the “Growing Problem of Identity Theft and its Economic Impact“. I discussed why there are no real incentives for Canadian businesses…