Felix Chaudhary reports: National carrier Air Pacific has confirmed the suspension of an employee suspected of removing sensitive and confidential documents from the airline’s computer database. In a statement released by an airline spokesman, Air Pacific also confirmed that the data stolen included documents relating to the Essential National Industries Employment Decree, individual pilot and…
Category: Non-U.S.
Sony attacked again – 93,000 usernames and passwords compromised
Associated Press reports: Sony said Wednesday intruders staged a massive attempt to access user accounts on its PlayStation Network and other online entertainment services in the second major attack on its flagship gaming site this year. The Tokyo-based company temporarily locked about 93,000 accounts whose IDs and passwords were successfully ascertained by the blitz. Sony…
UK: Council documents full of personal information found strewn outside football ground
Emily Allen reports: Hundreds of council documents containing personal information were found strewn across the street outside a football ground. Fans on their way to Rochdale’s home match with Wycombe at Spotland found lists of names, addresses and phone numbers and a series of political papers. They included parts of the electoral register, a list…
Ca: Personal information lost by Elections Alberta
Elections Alberta is apologizing after an enumerator working in Calgary lost a binder containing information on 153 residential addresses. Names, addresses, phone numbers, and even some birth dates of residents living in polling subdivision 45 were contained in the binder. According to a release, Elections Alberta was notified of the binder being lost by an…
Hacking “to protect others” is still hacking, kid
Shaun Tan reports on AsiaOne that a 20-year old student in Singapore decided to “help” those whose email addresses and passwords had been exposed by LulzSec dumping the database from 55 porn sites. Rather than just emailing those individuals to warn them, however, he decided to take matters into his own hands to change their…
AT: AnonAustria releases data from the Austrian Economy Chamber
The Austrian Economy Chamber (WKO) has become the latest victim of a hacking attack. WKO confirmed yesterday evening (Tues) that its webserver was infiltrated by unidentified cyber criminals. More than 6,000 data sets of customers of the chamber were published on the internet. Most of the records contain information about clients of WKO’s real estate…