Peter Terlato reports on a hack leading to a bit of a political flap: A 21-year-old communications student from the University of Technology, Sydney has been charged with gaining unlawful access to restricted files which contained information pertaining to Frances Abbott’s $60,000 scholarship. NSW Police issued a court summons to part-time librarian Freya Newman earlier…
Category: Non-U.S.
IE: Dirty tricks at centre of credit union snooping
Niall O’Connor reports on a major case of social engineering: Sensitive personal data, including addresses and job details, was handed over by the Department of Social Protection after just one phone call from private investigators pretending to be State officials. The underhand tactics used to extract confidential information from a leading State agency is revealed…
CN: Restaurant staff ‘stole bank card details’
Insider breaches in restaurants is a global problem, but this may be the first report of its kind I can remember seeing from China. Ke Jiayun reports: City restaurant and entertainment venue staff are among 51 people held in connection with a nationwide forged bank card network said to have netted nearly 10 million yuan (US$1.62…
Ca: Laptop stolen from Grimsby yoga studio
Amanda Moore reports: A Grimsby business owner is scrambling after her laptop, cash and cheques were stolen from her studio. Last week, Kimberley Whittemore, owner of Balanced Being Fitness Inc., returned to the studio from a coffee break downstairs at Station One to find the computer missing. The laptop, an older Toshiba model, contained hundreds…
AU: City To Bay Fun Run: Hacker suspected of viewing personal details on website
ABC reports: Adelaide police are investigating whether someone hacked the City To Bay Fun Run website and took personal details. Part of the website has been taken offline and online entries suspended because of the possible security breach. The fun run committee said an unauthorised person might have viewed the names, email details and in…
UK: Estate agent data breach leaves customers open to ID theft
From the Information Commissioner’s Office: The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has taken action after a London estate agent continued to leave papers containing personal information on the street despite a previous warning. On 11 December 2013, the ICO was informed that an outlet owned by Thamesview Estate Agents was leaving papers containing personal information in…