AJ reports on a breach that allegedly involved a Danish hacker and Pirate Bay co-founder Gottfrid Svartholm Wargi: Denmark’s most devastating hacker attack could have been prevented from escalating if the national police Rigspolitiet and the IT company CSC had reacted to a critical report by Deloitte in June 2012, Politiken reports. By the time…
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BBC’s Panorama team loses confidential information relating to a secret British Army unit
Ian Burrell reports: Highly sensitive and confidential information relating to a secret British Army unit which is alleged to have shot unarmed civilians in Northern Ireland has been “lost” by the BBC’s investigative team on the Panorama programme. The material, which includes information on former soldiers from the controversial Military Reaction Force, leaked out following…
DK: 900,000 residents’ social security numbers leaked (updated)
This is going to be a bit shaky, as it’s based on Google translator, but George Bendsen seems to be reporting that the Social Security Office of Economic Affairs and the Interior Ministry accidentally exposed 900,000 Danish citizens’ Social Security numbers. It happened in the “Robinson list,” a list of Danes who do not want direct mail…
KR: Executives at 3 credit card firms face heavy penalty for data theft
Chung Ah-young reports: About 80 officials, including former CEOs and executives, from three credit card firms face heavy penalties for the theft of customers’ personal information, the financial regulator said Wednesday. Former CEOs of the firms face heavy penalties equivalent to recommendations of dismissal, which means they will be banned from working for other financial…
Booking site HotelHippo.com in ‘appalling’ data leak
Dave Lee reports that a simple url manipulation exposed customers’ information: A hotel booking website that was leaking large amounts of customer information is being investigated by the UK data privacy watchdog. HotelHippo.com, owned by HotelStayUK, had revealed booking information that had been a “gift for burglars”, a security expert said. The exposed data could allow the…
UK: Oxfordshire County Council signs undertaking after loss of records with sensitive information
An undertaking to comply with the seventh data protection principle has been signed by Oxfordshire County Council. This follows an investigation into a July 2013 incident when a solicitor had removed a number of documents from the office but had dropped these in a street near their home. The documents were found the next day…