Edward Smith reports: Cyber-attacks were staged on Tuesday, 25 June, marking the anniversary of the start of the Korean War in 1950. The hackers compromised the websites of South Korea’s presidential office and several local newspapers. The unidentified hackers claimed to have obtained personal data belonging to two million South Korean workers and 40,000 US…
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Dutch govt proposes data breach notification requirements
Telecompaper reports: The Dutch government has proposed legislation tightening rules for disclosing breaches of personal data. The proposal sent to parliament by the justice ministry would require any breach of personal data, whether by public or private organisations, to be disclosed both to the privacy regulator CBp and to the person whose data was compromised….
IN: Pune firm wins Rs 60 lakh in data theft case
Abhijit Sathe reports: The state IT authority has ordered a Japanese engineering company’s Indian arm to pay a Pune firm Rs 40 lakh [US $6748.15] for stealing the latter’s confidential data, including e-mails, in bid to snatch its customers. Endo Kogyo India Private Limited carried out the alleged theft of business secrets with the help…
Pirate Bay co-founder jailed for two years
From The Local: Pirate Bay founder Gottfrid Svartholm Warg was sentenced on Thursday to two years in prison for data breaches, aggravated fraud, and attempted aggravated fraud, in what was Sweden’s biggest ever hacking trial. Svartholm Warg was convicted by the Nacka District Court after a hacking attack against Swedish IT firm Logica through which…
Hackers Break Into Toyota Server
Yoree Koh reports: Toyota Motor Corp. said Wednesday its Japanese-language corporate website had been hacked earlier this month. The world’s biggest auto maker said the security breach didn’t compromise customer information because such data isn’t stored on the site. But it urges those who visited the site from June 5 to June 14 to install…
Tepco employee loses info on 22 claiming nuclear compensation redress
Everywhere you go, documents are left on public transportation by employees, it seems: Tokyo Electric Power Co. said Friday that one of its employees has lost documents that include the personal information of 22 individuals who have applied for compensation related to the triple-meltdown crisis at its Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant, adding that this…