In an earlier blog entry tonight, I noted that 12,000 of 62,000 email addresses and passwords posted by LulzSec today came from WriterSpace.com. It appears that the dump also contained a number of people in Australia. ABC News in Australia reports: The group, which took down the CIA website yesterday, has leaked 62,000 worldwide email…
Category: Non-U.S.
Everything Everywhere slams mandatory data breach notification law
Dan Worth reports: Mobile operator Everything Everywhere has criticised changes to UK law as part of the recent European ePrivacy Directive, which will force ISPs and telecoms firms to disclose any data breach incidents. The changes, which were brought in at the same time as new rules on cookies, will require service providers to inform…
UK: Surbiton Children’s Centre Nursery signs undertaking in wake of theft of student information
There was no press release on this, but Surbiton Children’s Centre Nursery in Surrey, England recently signed an undertaking with the Information Commissioner’s Office as a result of a breach. According to the undertaking that was posted to the ICO’s web site on June 14, a teacher’s bag containing a flash drive and papers was…
Ie: DCU apologises for data protection breach
Dublin City University has issued an apology after the office that deals with its Intra work placements flooded hundreds of inboxes with unwanted emails. The office subscribed a number of businesses and employers to an email list without permission. An email was sent out asking employers – many of whom had taken on DCU graduates…
NZ: Labour Leaks — How I did it
While LulzSec has been making child’s play of Sony’s security, a blogger named Cameron Slater (WhaleOil) has been embarrassing the heck out of the National Labour Party in New Zealand. In the last two days, he has written more about their breach mentioned previously on this blog: Labour and their proxy bloggers have been telling a…
UK: Metro Bank in schoolboy email error snafu
John Leyden reports: Metro Bank, the newly established UK retail bank, has irked its customers with a schoolboy email error. The latest marketing missive from the bank was sent using all the email addresses in to To: field instead of using the bcc (blind carbon copy) field. In the process, the bank disclosed the email…