Luke James reports: Chinese censorship sprang a major leak on September 11, when researchers confirmed that more than 500GB of internal documents, source code, work logs, and internal communications from the so-called Great Firewall were dumped online, including packaging repos and operational runbooks used to build and maintain China’s national traffic filtering system. The files appear to…
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Exclusive: High-end fashion retailers Gucci, Balenciaga, Brioni, and Alexander McQueen hit by Salesforce attacks
Those readers who aren’t A-listers (including yours truly) may never have heard of Kering, but you may have heard of their high-end fashion brands: Gucci. Yves Saint Laurent. Bottega Veneta. Balenciaga. Alexander McQueen. Brioni. It is some of those fashion brands that are the subject of this post as they fell prey to attacks by…
Kivimäki walks free during appeal over Vastaamo data breach
The Helsinki Times reports: Aleksanteri Kivimäki, convicted of thousands of cybercrimes linked to the Vastaamo data breach, has been released from custody by the Helsinki Court of Appeal. The decision followed two days of testimony from Kivimäki, who denied all charges. The court cited his prolonged pretrial detention as the reason for release. He has…
English Court of Appeal Rules on Compensation for Data Breaches
There’s an update to Farley v Equiniti. Ann Bevitt and Morgan McCormack of Cooley write: The English Court of Appeal has handed down an important judgment in Farley v. Paymaster (Equiniti) [1] on when compensation may be claimed for nonmaterial damage (such as distress or anxiety) arising out of breaches of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the…
Vietnam’s national credit registration and reporting agency hacked; most of the population affected (2)
Some data breaches make headlines for the number of people affected globally, such as a Facebook scraping incident in 2019 that affected 553 million people worldwide. Then there are breaches that affect a country’s entire population or much of it, such as a misconfigured database that exposed almost the entire population of Ecuador in 2019,…
Qantas CEO, top executives lose $522,000 in pay for major cyber breach
Angus Whitley reports: Qantas Airways Ltd. Chief Executive Officer Vanessa Hudson and her top leadership team were docked A$800,000 ($522,000) in pay for a cyberbreach that impacted millions of customers, as the airline attempts to show it’s taking a harder line on accountability and governance. Hudson forfeited A$250,000 in compensation, while the airline’s five executive…