Two teenagers have been arrested on suspicion of hacking into the Fine Gael website. The party’s new website was hacked into in January and the details of 2,000 subscribers were stolen. Read more on RTÉ. Previous coverage on DataBreaches.net can be found here.
Category: Non-U.S.
UK: Local councils lose personal details of 160,000 people
David Pegg reports: Local councils have lost data relating to personal details of more than 160,000 people in the last five years, a Bureau investigation can reveal. More than 26,000 individuals have had their personal details lost in the first half of 2011 alone. The losses include personal details of more than 5,000 children. CVs,…
Beijing Court Finds 21 Defendants Guilty of Criminal Privacy Violations
On August 5, 2011, the Beijing Second Intermediate People’s Court announced its decision in what is reported to be the largest criminal case to date involving the misuse of personal information in Beijing, China. The Court based its ruling on Article 7 of the Seventh Amendment to the Criminal Law, which applies to three types…
Borlas.net user data hacked and exposed
Seen at The Hacker News: Division Hackers Crew hack the Database of Borlas.net (Free SMS Site) . Hackers leak the usernames, Passwords, emails and phone numbers of 14800 registered users. Leaked database posted on pastenbin… Read more on The Hacker News
France Introduces Data Security Breach Notification Requirement for Electronic Communication Service Providers
On August 24, 2011, France’s new law concerning electronic communications (Ordonnance n° 2011-1012 du 24 août 2011 relative aux communications électroniques, or the “Ordinance”) came into force. The Ordinance implements the provisions of the revised EU Directive 2002/58/EC (the “e-Privacy Directive”) with respect to the French Data Protection Act of 1978, the French Postal and Electronic Communications…
Ca: Dozens of personal files discovered in west-end dumpster
Dozens of personal files have been discovered in a dumpster outside a west-end restaurant. The files included the personal information of past employees. The dumpster outside the Twisted Kilt has now been emptied out, but Thursday morning it was full of several boxes of documents that included the personal information of former staff members, not…