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Japanese hacker arrested in Thailand

Posted on March 7, 2012 by Dissent

Another reminder to watch your file-sharing settings. The Mainichi Daily News reports: A 34-year-old Japanese computer hacker wanted in Japan for alleged cybercrimes was arrested in the northern Thai city of Chiang Mai on Tuesday, Thai police said Wednesday. Yugen Orimo is suspected of hacking private data of some 350 Japanese people via a popular file-sharing…

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Belfast city councillors’ bank details disclosed in data foul-up

Posted on March 6, 2012 by Dissent

Amanda Poole reports on another case where a response for records results in a data breach: Belfast city councillors were forced to cancel their bank cards last night after a major security breach in which a council worker accidentally released all their personal information to a member of the public. An internal investigation is now…

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AU: Defence under investigation after privacy breach

Posted on March 5, 2012 by Dissent

Hayden Cooper reports on a horrific breach: The Australian Defence Force is under investigation for a privacy breach that exposed the most personal details of scores of serving soldiers. The bungle at Townsville’s Lavarack Barracks posted medical information, discipline records and psychology reports online for all to see. One former soldier has told ABC’s 7.30…

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UK: Security breach at Castle Huntly prison as confidential files go missing after being binned by wardens

Posted on March 5, 2012 by Dissent

David Taylor reports: Files containing the personal information of prisoners, including Tommy Sheridan, are missing.. after being put in the bin by mistake. Staff at Castle Huntly jail threw out confidential paperwork weeks ago but forgot to shred it. When they went back to do it, the files had mysteriously disappeared. The missing information included…

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UK: North cop faces data protection breach charges

Posted on March 3, 2012 by Dissent

A Black Isle cop is facing allegations he breached data protection laws by logging into a police computer system to find details on a colleague who was likely to be a witness against him in a Northern Constabulary misconduct investigation. The trial of Alan Heap (43) – whose address was given as c/o Burnett Road…

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Leakage from website poses threat to Chinese netizens

Posted on March 2, 2012 by Dissent

Xiang Yang provides some interesting statistics. Translated by e Xin, People’s Daily Online reports: … By the end of 2011, a total of 26 website were suspected to have users’ information leaked, involving 278 million accounts and passwords, according to the statistics from the National Computer Network Emergency Response Technical Team/Coordination Center of China (CNCERT/CC)….

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