Mark Kleinman reports: The recruitment specialist Hays is at the centre of an embarrassing gaffe today after one of its employees distributed an email disclosing the remuneration of thousands of contractors working for the state-backed Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS). I have learnt that a Hays employee yesterday inadvertently forwarded a message showing the pay…
Category: Non-U.S.
UAE: Employee arrested for credit card fraud
Matovu Abdallah Twaha reports: An Arab man working for a major electronic company in Dubai was arrested for stealing customers’ credit card information and using it to buy expensive products from the same company. Director of Electronic Investigations at the Criminal Investigations Department (CID), Maj. Saeed Al Hajiri said they were informed in July about…
Kr: SK loses more customer information
Kim Mi-ju reports: Cell phone numbers of 38,000 users of a discontinued traffic information service run by an affiliate of SK Group were leaked online and the company said yesterday that it completely deleted related data on Sunday. According to sources, a real-time traffic information text message and Web site service Entrac, operated by SK…
South Korea to tackle online registration ID number leaks
Jianggan Li reports: The Korean government will abolish a system that requires citizens to use their real names and resident registration numbers when posting messages on commenting online. The move is part of the security overhauls currently being planned by Ministry of Public Administration & Security (MOPAS). […] The total number of known leaked resident…
UK: Hundreds of police officers caught illegally accessing criminal records computer
Jason Lewis reports: More than 200 police officers and support staff in Britain’s biggest force have been caught accessing the highly sensitive Police National Computer for their own ends. Half of the offences uncovered, including some accused of passing information to criminals, took place in the last three years – suggesting the abuse of the…
Epson Korea says 35 million 350,000 customers’ data hacked (updated)
Update: Yonhap News issued another story that puts the number at 350,000, but didn’t correct their original url, cited below. Good grief – yet another hack in South Korea affecting 35 million?! Yonhap News Agency reports: Epson Korea Co., the South Korean unit of Japan’s Seiko Epson Corp., said Saturday that its Web site has…