Raymond Brown reports: Police officers and snooping staff at the Cambridgeshire force have broken data rules to spy on former lovers, friends, family, neighbours – and even high-profile names. Four staff employed by the constabulary have been sacked for breaches of the Data Protection Act since and 37 disciplinary measures in total have been instigated….
Category: Non-U.S.
Kent Police fined £100,000 after interview tapes abandoned at former station
The Information Commissioner’s Office has served a monetary penalty of £100,000 on Kent Police after confidential information, including copies of police interview tapes, was left in the basement of a former police station. The highly sensitive information included records relating back to the 1980s, thought to have been left at the site when the building was vacated…
KR: KT sued over data leaking
Kim Jung-Yoon reports: The Citizens’ Coalition for Economic Justice (CCEJ) is filing a public interest lawsuit against the nation’s No. 2 mobile carrier, KT, over leaked personal information. It is claiming damages of 1 million won ($933) per customer. The CCEJ held a press conference in front of KT headquarters in Gwanghwamun, central Seoul, yesterday…
Notorious hacker “Diabl0” caught in Bangkok
From the Bangkok Post: Infamous international hacker Farid Essebar was arrested on Tuesday following a joint operation between Thai and Swiss authorities who have been tracing the man for more than two years….. The 27-year-old Russian citizen is wanted on a computer crime charges arrest warrant in Switzerland. He is accused of cracking banking computer…
Citroen becomes the latest victim of Adobe ColdFusion hackers
Tom Brewster reports: A prolific hacker gang that has breached numerous companies by exploiting Adobe software has claimed another major hit in the form of car manufacturer Citroën, the Guardian has learned. Citroën had one of its German websites hacked to include a backdoor, which is a method of bypassing normal authentication systems, and which…
UK: Update: Man Held Over Morrisons Payroll Data Breach
Sky News reports a development in the Morrisons data breach affecting up to 100,000 employees: An employee of supermarket chain Morrisons has been arrested by police investigating the theft of payroll data of up to 100,000 employees. West Yorkshire Police said a man was arrested on Monday on suspicion of making or supplying an article…