DutchNews.nl reports: Dozens of confidential police files have ended up in the public domain following an internet security leak, the NRC says on Wednesday. The files concern murders, armed robberies, gangs and suspect jihadis. The information was easy to find using internet search engine Google, the paper says. Police have confirmed the leak and taken…
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Northern Ireland website leaves front door open, spills users’ data
Jennifer Baker reports: The creators of this Irish government website may be fluent in Irish, but they are distinctly unversed in data security. The Líofa (Fluent) website – a Department of Culture, Arts and Leisure project – suffered not so much a data breach as a data giveaway! Users’ personal information such as names, addresses, emails and…
Eight arrested in Israel and Thailand for Leumi Card data breach and extortion attempt
The Jerusalem Post reports: Eight former bank employees, in Israel and Thailand, tried to extort millions of shekels from Leumi Card Ltd., the credit card issuer affiliated with one of the nation’s largest banks, police said on Sunday. The ex-employees threatened that if they didn’t get the money, they’d sell the details of millions of…
Belgian activist files complaint with Belgian Privacy Commissioner over hack
This Belgian blog is really going after Mensura over the recent Rex Mundi hack, reported on this site. The blogger raises a number of good points, including the concern about Belgians providing their national registration numbers to web sites and the fact that so much medical information on named individuals has now been exposed. You…
Attack reveals 81 percent of Tor users but admins call for calm
Darren Pauli reports: The Tor project has urged calm after new research found 81 percent of users could be identified using Cisco’s NetFlow tool. A research effort led by professor Sambuddah Chakravarty from the Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology in Delhi found that well-resourced attackers such as a nation-state could effectively reveal Tor users’ identity…
Fix your security, don’t cover up breaches: AU privacy commissioner
Stilgherrian reports: Australian Privacy Commissioner Timothy Pilgrim has issued a strong warning to companies that attempt to cover up data breaches, or have failed to take a proactive approach toward ensuring that personal data is kept secure. Attempts to conceal a data breach “will not be looked well on by our office”, Pilgrim told the…