If you tried to obtain tickets to the Game of Thrones exhibition through the Titanic Belfast web site, some of your data personal may have leaked. See this BBC report.
Category: Non-U.S.
UK: Essex County Council has 27,000 computer hacker attacks in a year
Just for perspective…. Ben Bland reports: More than 25,000 cyber attacks were carried out against Essex County Council in the past year, it has emerged. It is thought those carrying out the attacks were attempting to access the personal details of people living in Essex, which are held by the authority. The council refused to…
New guidance on data breaches in Belgium
I’ve been looking for an English language report on the new breach guidelines in Belgium and finally found one. Cédrine Morlière and Ludo Deklerck of Bird & Bird write: When the data breach results in a “public incident” (when a data breach results in a public leakage of private data), according to the guidance, the…
CERT probing security breach at IT firms
ElectraCard Services was one of two payment processors in India named in conjunction with that massive $45M cyberheist. The other one is reportedly EnStage, Inc. Read more on ManoramaOnline.com.
Indian card processor in $45 million heist is ElectraCard Services – Reuter sources
Dinesh Nair and Jessica Dye of Reuters report that one of the card processors whose security was breached in a $45 million global cyber heist was India’s ElectraCard Services. No one has confirmed that officially, however, as the sources spoke on condition of anonymity. You can read the Reuter’s exclusive coverage here.
AU: Grave security breach of confidential police information puts informants at risk
Anthony Dowsley reports: The lives of informers and police officers have been put at risk over the “gravest” of leaks from inside the force. Police raids across Melbourne three weeks ago discovered volumes of confidential and sensitive police files dating back three years. So far, a junior police officer from the northern metro region has…