OTTAWA – The Canada Revenue Agency says it has temporarily cut off public access to its electronic services over security concerns. The agency says it shut down access to protect the security of taxpayer information. Read more on The Spec. The full text of the statement on CRA’s web site: Statement from the Canada Revenue…
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Ca: Inform customers of data breach or pay $100,000 per case: new privacy bill
Candice So reports: Businesses and organizations will be formally required to tell individual customers and the Privacy Commissioner of Canada if they’ve suffered a data breach – or pay up to $100,000 in fines for every individual not told, according to the new Digital Privacy Act, or Bill S-4, tabled in the Senate today. Read more on ITbusiness.ca
Ie: Inquiry into data breach at college
Elaine Keogh reports: The Data Protection Commission is investigating a data breach by a college, which led to applicants being given portfolio assessment marks of other applicants instead of receiving just their own result. As part of the application process, prospective students for the Bachelor of Arts course at Cork Institute of Technology must include…
60,000 Personal Credentials Leaked From Syrian Sites
Lee J writes: Today a hacker from the European Cyber Army going by the handle @Zer0Pwn has announced a leak of data from two Syrian based websites job.sy, realestate.sy. The leak which is titled “ECA vs. Assad | Part 1″ was posted to Pastebin with a preview of some of the users’ data and a link to Sendspace. The attack is apart…
PK: Privacy breach: ‘Hacker’ arrested for leaking private data
Asad Kharal reports: A man was arrested on Wednesday for hacking into a cellular company’s database and uploading the information of its subscribers on a website. Mubashar Shahzad, a resident of Kasur, was arrested after the National Response Centre for Cyber Crime (NR3C) of the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) traced his IP (internet protocol) address,…
Anti-media cybercrime spree continues: Al Arabiya hacked by NullCrew
Violet Blue reports that NullCrew teamed up with the Horsemen of Lulz and used the same unpatched vulnerability in Zimbra that it used to hack Comcast to now hack Al Arabiya, the second largest media company in the Middle East. Read more on ZDNet.