Khristina Narizhnaya reports: An independent consumer rights watchdog has sued 10 of about 80 online stores whose customers’ personal information became available last week on the Internet, hoping to set a precedent for further privacy breach lawsuits. The Consumer Union of Russia wants the companies to admit that they broke the law by not preventing…
Category: Non-U.S.
IN: Man nabbed for data theft
S Ahmed Ali reports: MUMBAI: A private data consultancy firm employee, who quit the job after allegedly selling data to a rival company for money, was arrested by sleuths of the Mumbai Cyber cell on Thursday. Sagar Deepak More, 28, a data executive with a US-based company in Mumbai, was arrested under the Information Technology…
UK: ICO calls for prison sentences for use of stolen data
Warwick Ashford reports: The UK should introduce prison sentences for using stolen personal data, says Information Commissioner Christopher Graham. He is calling for an effective deterrent to the “routine trashing of individuals’ rights” under the Data Protection Act, according to according to Bloomberg. The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) proposed a two-year prison term in 2006 after investigating the sale of stolen…
AU: Credit card details hacked at Horsham business
Police at Horsham, in the state’s west, say the computer system of a Horsham business has been hacked and people’s credit card details stolen. For legal reasons, police are not identifying which business had its computer remotely accessed. There have now been 60 complaints of unauthorised use of cards from the Wimmera Mallee, but police…
Data stolen from 35 million South Korean social networking users
Graham Cluley writes: Hackers have broken into the popular South Korean websites Nate and Cyworld earlier this week, and stolen information about 35 million social networking users. Names, email addresses, phone numbers and resident registration numbers of users are said to have been compromised. The BBC reports that the Korean Communications Commission has pointed the finger…
Without proper laws governing public disclosure of data security hacks, Canadians remain at risk.
Lawyer Jonathan Penney writes: Another day, another hack. Apple, Sony, Citigroup, and Lockheed Martin are just some of the big-name companies afflicted by recent cyber-security breaches. Canada has not been spared. Beyond the attacks on the federal Treasury and Finance Departments, Sony, Husky Energy, and Honda have all had Canadian branches or units compromised in…