Tessa Norman reports: The number of customer data loss incidents reported to the FCA [Financial Conduct Authority] has increased significantly in the past year. A Freedom of Information request published by the FCA shows that in 2013, the regulator was notified of 13 incidents where firms have lost customer data or had it stolen. Some…
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KR: KT ordered to pay 100,000 won each to data-leak victims
Yonhap News reports: South Korea’s No. 2 mobile carrier KT Corp. was ordered by a local district court Friday to pay 100,000 won (US$97) in compensation to each customer who had personal data leaked in 2012. The Seoul Central District Court’s ruling came after some 28,000 KT users filed a lawsuit against the mobile carrier for…
KR: Yet another massive data leak; 27 million South Koreans affected (updated)
Wow. At first I thought WantChinaTimes was just rehashing older news, but they’re not. They report: South Korean authorities have unveiled a massive leak of personal information related to more than 70% of the population aged between 15 and 65 in the country. A hacker from China is one of the perpetrators, reports Duowei News, a…
UK: Birmingham banker fined for reading colleagues’ bank accounts
From the Information Commissioner’s Office: A Birmingham banker has been fined after he admitted reading his colleagues bank accounts. Dalvinder Singh, 29, from Yardley, Birmingham, worked in Santander UK’s suspicious activity reporting unit at their Leicester office. His role investigating allegations of money laundering meant he was able to view customer accounts. But he used…
AU: Federal privacy authorities called in over Centrelink breach
Noel Towell reports: Federal privacy authorities have been called in after Centrelink left revealing personal and financial details of clients lying around at a suburban railway station last month. Documents containing details of 23 clients’ full financial disclosures, including bank account numbers and details of property holdings, superannuation and investments, were left by an official…
AU: Student Faces Two Years In Prison For Allegedly Hacking Frances Abbott’s Scholarship Information
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…