I’ve read a number of news stories recently about burglaries of government offices in various African countries. Here’s one from this week, out of Kenya. Barry Salil reports: Business at the Kapsabet law courts was paralysed for most part of yesterday as police investigated theft of computers and documents at the premises. Thieves are reported…
Category: Non-U.S.
UK: York computer hacker, Edward Pearson, jailed for identity fraud
From York Press, an update to a case mentioned previously on this blog: A York computer hacker has been jailed for an ID fraud which affected thousands of people and could have netted him £834,000. Southwark Crown Court was told how Edward Pearson, 23, used internet viruses to gain more than eight million personal details…
Dutch Police Arrest 17-year-old Suspected of Breaching Hundreds of KPN Servers
Loek Essers reports: The Dutch High Tech Crime Team has arrested a 17-year-old suspected of compromising customer account data on hundreds of servers belonging to telecommunications operator KPN….. The arrested teenager called himself “xS”, “Yoshioka” and “Yui” online, and is suspected of breaching the security of hundreds of KPN servers last January, compromising user data…
UK: Data loss by North East councils is revealed
Andrew Glover reports: Widespread personal data loss by North East councils has put thousands of people at risk of identity fraud. Lost laptops, missing memory sticks and bundles of post sent to wrong addresses have put delicate private details in the wrong hands. A Freedom of Information Act request revealed a catalogue of potentially dangerous…
Skeptical Science hacked, private user details publicly posted online
John Cook has posted a breach alert over on Skeptical Science. It seems that hackers got the entire users’ database and have dumped it on unnamed sites on the Internet. So far, I’m not finding those sites, so I’m not sure what all the data types are. If anyone has additional info on this breach,…
Commentary: ACC caught out in another privacy breach
It just goes from bad to worse at ACC (the Accident Compensation Corporation), it seems. I had previously noted reports of a serious breach involving thousands of individuals’ claims. Since the initial reports, more details have emerged that have made waves, but this newest report will have some just wanting to shut ACC down altogether….