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…
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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…
S. Sudan says it will not expel Chinese company officials
Sudan Tribune reports: South Sudan has vowed not to expel any member of Huawei, a Chinese technological company it accused of allegedly forging documents on behalf of its information minister. This comes a day after the country’s authorities ordered an investigation into allegations that Huawei had hacked its systems. Read more on Sudan Tribune.
KR: Three former Kia Motors employees indicted for trade secrets breach
Another insider breach for competitive advantage. This one doesn’t seem to involve customer data. Yonhap News reports: Three former employees of Kia Motors Corp., South Korea’s No. 2 automaker, have been indicted on charges of leaking confidential information to a Chinese competitor, Seoul prosecutors said Friday. The suspects, including a former member of the board…
Saudi hacker claims to have leaked Israeli gift store customer data online
Waqas writes: A Saudi hacker going with the handle of @security_511 / on Twitter has claimed to hack a private online Israeli gift store and leak credit card details of customers on the web. After scanning the data, we have found out full usernames of credit/debit card owners with their phone numbers, addresses, date of birth, card type, card numbers, expiration date and…
South Korean Internet Regulator Confirms Data Breach at Popular Video Sharing Site
James Lim reports: Pandora TV Co. Ltd., the South Korea-based operator of the country’s biggest video sharing website, lost 114,707 pieces of personal information during two confirmed intrusions in September, an official at the Korea Communications Commission (KCC) told Bloomberg BNA Oct. 22. “Based on what we have found so far, 7.4 million pieces of…