John Leyden reports: Barclays Bank has launched an investigation following a reported security breach involving thousands of confidential customer files. The Mail on Sunday took delivery of a memory stick containing personal details of 2,000 Barclays customers from a whistleblower. The files reportedly contained passport and national insurance details, as well as financial data, health and insurance…
Category: Non-U.S.
Why Canada’s Privacy Commissioner and CRTC should heed PIAC/CAC’s recommendations about Bell’s “Relevant Ads Program”
This post originally appeared on PogoWasRight.org. I am cross-posting it here because I think NullCrew’s hack should inform policy decisions and public debate about a program of Bell’s that involves a lot of sharing of consumers’ personal information with “affiliates.” Bell (BCE, Bell Canada, Bell Mobility, Bell Aliant and their affiliates) believes it is engaging…
New and very concerning developments following breach involving Disqus comments
Back in December, I noted a breach involving Disqus comments disclosed by a group of investigative journalists calling themselves Research Group (ResearchGruppen) in Sweden. The researchers had been able to identify – and then “out” – pseudoanonymous commenters. Kevin Townsend had some interesting commentary on the case, while Disqus focused on denying any security breach of…
UK: Council apologises for email blunder
The[Boston, UK] council has apologised to almost 600 people after inadvertently revealing their email addressess – many of which were personal accounts. The blunder came as the authority made a big play of launching a Daily Bulletin – a shoot off from its current Monthly Bulletin – offering news from the borough. However, in trying…
RedHack hacks TTNET, Turkey’s largest ISP
Today well known hacker collective RedHack has announced a breach of data on Turkey’s biggest ISP. The attack is on TTNET (http://www.ttnet.com.tr) which is Turkey’s biggest internet service and other telecom services provider. RedHack has announced from the @Redhack_en twitter account that they are starting to dump the data of clients who are not ordinary…
Turkish ISP TTNet and other carriers hacked by RedHack – claim
The Turkish hacktivist collective RedHack claims to have hacked Turkish ISP TTNET as well as mobile operator Vodafone and Turkcell. They announced the hack this afternoon: Customer data of ISP TTNET, mobile operator Vodafone and Turkcell infiltrated and vast amount of data collected from the systems. + — RedHack_EN (@RedHack_EN) February 3, 2014 They also claim…