Ke Jiayun provides more details on part of a recent crackdown and arrests for sale of personal information. Here’s an example of how the data were misused to scam people: A suspected information seller, surnamed Li, was held in Anxi County in Fujian Province over a telecom scam operation. Parents in Songjiang District told police…
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ACC staffer faces inquiry after clients’ records stolen
As if ACC hadn’t gotten enough bad press over previous breaches, it’s had another one. Anna Turner reports: The personal details of dozens of Christchurch ACC claimants have been leaked after a staff member’s home was burgled. ACC confirmed yesterday that the home of a Christchurch ACC case manager was broken into on Saturday, August…
Chinese arrest 1,213 for trafficking in personal information
CRI English reports that Chinese law enforcement has broken up 468 gangs and arrested over 1,200 people, according to their Ministry of Public Security. A total of 1,327 cases of personal information trafficking were solved and more than 700 million pieces of personal information were seized by police from more than 20 public security organs…
Privacy watchdog fines Greece’s Finance Ministry for data protection failure
Associated Press reports that Greece’s Finance Ministry has been fined €150,000 ($200,000) by the privacy watchdog for allegedly failing to protect data on millions of taxpayers. The data ended up in the hands of private companies, or in some cases, in the hands of data thieves. The Data Protection Authority said Friday the ministry hadn’t taken…
Serious Farce Office: SFO suffers biggest-ever criminal data breach
James Moore reports: The Serious Fraud Office is engulfed by a new scandal after it admitted that thousands of pages of evidence as well as tapes and data files from 58 separate sources were sent back to the wrong owner. The enormous volume of evidence related to its long-running corruption investigation into defence giant BAE…
Dutch DNS server ‘hack’: Thousands of sites serve up malware
Martin Gijzemijter reports: Thousands of Dutch websites served up malware this week after what was initially thought to be a DNS server hack at SIDN, the Dutch administrator of the .nl domain extension. On Monday, the website of large Dutch online electronics retailer Conrad.nl was reportedly found to be serving malware, and was taken down…