Remember that breach involving Belfast city councillors’ bank details? Lesley-Anne McKeown of the Belfast Telegraph reports on what the breach cost the city: A report presented to councillors has found that dealing with the security breach which was blamed on ‘human error’ cost £64,250 — most of which went on legal fees. Read more on…
Category: Non-U.S.
China continues to root out traders in stolen personal info
BBC reports that Beijing authorities have arrested 160 on charges of stealing personal information and have shut down 13 sites allegedly involved in trading stolen personal information. This is in addition to the 1,700 arrested last month. Read more on BBC.
UK: Contract catering firm signs undertaking to improve data protection
Without fanfare, the ICO has published an undertaking signed by Holroyd Howe Independent Ltd in Reading. The gist of the breach is that in response to a request for a copy of an ex-employee’s payslip (requested by the ex-employee), the data processor mailed a document disclosing the relevant month’s payslips for all of the contract catering firm’s…
AU: Hackers hit Telstra site (updated)
Ben Grubb reports: Telstra has been hit by a “hacking attack” affecting 35,000 customers, just a week after one of its IT staff told a security conference the telco was reviewing how it secured and stored customer information. The hacking attack occurred on the servers of a third party company that runs Telstra BigPond’s GameArena and Games Shop websites, the telco…
WHMCS victim of social engineering; over 500,000 client records stolen, deleted from server, and dumped publicly
Why hack when you can socially engineer employees into giving you the keys to the kingdom? Client management billing platform WHMCS reports that hacker group UGNazi successfully socially engineered their web hosting firm into providing the hackers with admin credentials. The hackers then proceeded to acquire their data, delete it, and dump it. The attack…
UK: Personal details of Army snipers found in trunk of a second-hand car
This morning’s “Oh FFS!” breach: details of 28 snipers were found in the trunk of a used car purchased last August. The documents included “the names of personnel from a number of regiments, including one currently operating in Afghanistan, as well as details of a snipers’ training course.” And if that didn’t make it easy…