Susanna Moss reports: Canada’s privacy watchdog is investigating a possible breach of personal information belonging to residential school survivors, after an adjudicator working for the agency handling their compensation claims filed a police report citing blackmail. The Indian Residential Schools Adjudication Secretariat is the administrative body that manages the claims made by residential school survivors….
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CN: Website security loopholes force Ctrip to stop saving user CCV info
Si Huan reports: Ctrip will stop saving users’ credit card verification (CCV) information online after system loopholes were discovered on the travel website that led to the leak of user information and possible money loss. Shanghai-based Ctrip, China’s biggest tourism website with more than 140 million users, said yesterday that it will not save users’…
JE: Environment Dept in “sensitive” data breach
ChannelOnlineTV reports: Jersey’s Environment Department’s been given a formal telling off for breaching data protection rules. The island’s Data Protection Officer says it involves “sensitive personal data”. It’s issued formal enforcement notice. It follows a complaint received by the Commissioner about information held by the department about an individual. The information was received by the…
Ca: Lost hard drive with student loan data lacked password protection
Daniel Bitonti reports: A portable computer hard drive containing the personal information of more than 500,000 student loan recipients was left unsecured for extended periods of time by government employees and was not protected by a password or encryption, Canada’s top privacy watchdog says. In a report tabled in Parliament on Tuesday, interim federal privacy…
AU: Doubts over computer hacker case
JoAnne McCarthy reports: An alleged computer hacker described last year as a ‘‘considerable risk to society’’ could apply to have all charges against him dismissed after questions about the case against him and the ‘‘guns blazing attitude’’ of police. Matthew Flannery, 24, of Point Clare, was allegedly an international hacking group leader when he was…
Potential 7 Million Credit Card Details Leaked by “Anonymous Ukraine” (update2)
Lee J reports on DataLossDB: The last couple of weeks have seen tensions rising between Russia and Ukraine, and along with it an increase in computer crime. Sometime earlier this morning, a post allegedly by Anonymous Ukraine has claimed to have published “more than 800 million credit cards” by releasing four archives: Visa, Mastercard, American…