Ke Jiayun reports: A 10-member gang were caught in Beijing and Shanghai for illegally obtaining and selling personal information, with local police saying it had seized data belonging to nearly 1 million people. The gang made over 320,000 yuan (US$52,704) from the illegal dealings. In mid-August this year, a woman filed a complaint claiming her…
Category: Non-U.S.
WoW Hacker Group Mastermind Sentenced To Two Years In Chinese Prison
Eric Jou reports: Late last week, in Zhejiang province’s Songyang county court, ten men were sentenced to prison terms of up to two years. These men didn’t commit super heinous crimes, but they did commit a terrible one: they were found guilty of hacking and defrauding over 10,000 World of WarCraft accounts. Read more on Kotaku.com.
Conviction in hacking of Russian president’s site
If you had to guess what sentence someone would get for hacking the Russian president’s web site, what would you guess? The Voice of Russia reports: The Tomsk Sovetsky District Court has found a local resident guilty of hacking the Russian president’s site, the court press service reported on Monday. “In May 2012, the defendant…
NZ: Huge increase in Inland Revenue Department reports of privacy breaches in 2013
Looks like New Zealand’s new Privacy Commissioner, John Edwards, has his work cut out for him. ONE News reports: Confirmed privacy breaches at Inland Revenue have jumped by almost 400 percent in the past year despite a crackdown after a spate of failings. In 2012 there were 32 separate privacy breaches but ONE News can…
CN: Data leak traced to YTO employee
Jiang Yabin reports: A YTO Express employee has been arrested for selling the express delivery company’s customer information to an online dealer, local media reported Thursday. The suspect, surnamed Wang, who was arrested on October 15, is awaiting charges of illegally selling personal information, including names, telephone numbers and addresses, said a prosecutor surnamed Yin…
Russian hackers stole 54 million Turkish citizens’ ID data: Claim
OK, I’m posting this with a caution that it has not really received any official confirmation and I don’t know if any proof of hack or claims has been posted anywhere at this point: Russian hackers have seized 54 Turkish million citizens’ ID data because Turkey’s political parties and the country’s Supreme Election Committee (YSK)…