Jiang Yabin reports: Fengxian district police have arrested 11 people suspected of illegally selling personal information, local media reported Wednesday. The case involved about 1 billion pieces of personal information, according to a report in the Shanghai Evening Post. Fengxian district police got onto the case in June while they were investigating an illegal gold…
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Security breach after photos of Prince William shared online
TVNZ reports: Photographs showing a day in the life of Prince William posted online by St James’ s Palace have caused an embarrassing security blunder for the Ministry of Defence in the United Kingdom. The ministry was yesterday forced to reset the user names and computer passwords of dozens of Royal Air Force staff after…
Man arrested over theft of 9 million Greek files
CNBC reports: A Greek man has been arrested on suspicion of having stolen 9 million personal data files in what is believed to be the biggest breach of private information the country has ever seen. Police said Tuesday that the 35-year-old, whose name was not released, was found in possession of the data files that…
PK: Crucial data from Balochistan prison chief’s office stolen
Essa Tareen of News Tribe reports: The credibility of government’s information system is being questioned after important data was stolen from the office of Balochistan Inspector General of Prisons. According to sources, the data was stored in the hard disks of the computer situated inside the office of the IG. The data related to the…
Oops! Taliban Reveal Identities of Their Mailing List Members
There are e-mail gaffes and then there are e-mail gaffes. Muhammed Lila reports that a Taliban spokesperson exposed more than 400 recipients on a Taliban e-mail list: The names were disclosed in an email by Qari Yousuf Ahmedi, an official Taliban spokesperson, on Saturday. The email was a press release he received from the account…
Ca: More charges in TTC Metropass, credit-card fraud scheme
Chris Doucette reports: Five men arrested earlier this fall for a major fraud scheme involving TTC Metropasses have been slapped with 69 new charges for allegedly stealing data from tens of thousands of credit cards. Toronto Police said the investigation, dubbed Project Rocket, has continued since the accused were arrested Sept. 27 on 33 charges….