Alana Schetzer reports that members of Australia’s Parliament got a lesson in using Outlook after what some thought was a “security breach” exposing members’ email and calendars turned out to be self-inflicted harm from user error: Department of Parliamentary Service acting secretary Russell Grove said there was no evidence of hacking and that the issue…
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More on the hack of Israel’s court system
More details are emerging on the significant data security breach involving Israel’s court system.
Scottish council fined £250k after losing staff pension records
We had been told a big fine was coming, but now it’s here. PublicService.co.uk reports: Scottish Borders Council has been hit with a major fine after pension records, bank details and salary information on hundreds of employees were dumped in recycle bins, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has confirmed. The watchdog, which can fine up…
Hacker suspected of stealing scores of court documents claims no hacking required to access files
Eli Senyor and Maor Buchnik report: The police have arrested Moshe Halevi, 40, from Acre, for allegedly hacking into one of the Israeli courts’ databases and accessing thousands of case files, some of which contain classified information. Two additional suspects were arrested as well. One of the suspects, Attorney Boaz Guttman, is a former high-ranking…
Emobile, Meteor plead guilty to data legislation breaches
RTÉ reports: Two telecoms companies have pleaded guilty to multiple breaches of data protection legislation at the Dublin District Court and have been ordered to pay a total of €30,000 to two charities. The charges follow the theft of two unencrypted laptops, containing personal and financial information of customers, from the office of Eircom Ltd…
Sony says 400 customer names, emails from mobile division leaked in China
Jay Alabaster reports: Sony said Thursday that hackers accessed about 400 names and email addresses of its mobile customers in China and Taiwan, but that no credit card or banking information was compromised. The company said it became aware of the hack several days after a message was posted on the popular text-sharing website Pastebin by a…