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…
Category: Non-U.S.
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…
UK: Computer expert at centre of credit card scam is jailed
Chris Osuh reports: A crooked IT expert at the centre of a major credit card scam kitted out a shop with his ill-gotten gains. Fraudster Syed Tirmizi traded the personal banking details of unsuspecting customers with online criminals, hoarded equipment for making bogus credit cards, and made a string of purchases using other people’s money….
(follow-up) Ireland to extradite “Boards.ie hacker”?
Back in January 2010, this blog lined to a report that Boards.ie had been hacked. Irish tech lawyer and professor TJ McIntyre notes that additional information on the breach was subsequently published on Boards.ie and the following month, The Sunday Times reported: The hacker has already used stolen passwords and email addresses to access credit…
(update) NZ: National admits Labour data breach – but denies passing names to Whaleoil
NZPA and NBR staff report the latest in the Labour Party donor list breach reported on this blog last night: The National Party has admitted exploiting a security hole in the Labour Party website but denies passing data to a right-wing blogger who plans to release the names of Labour Party donors. The Privacy Commissioner…
NZ: Labour apologizes over data breach (update1)
The New Zealand Press Association reports: The Labour Party has apologised to donors, after a right-wing blogger said he would release their personal details following what the party called a malicious breach of its website. In an email sent to donors yesterday, party secretary Chris Flatt said an investigation was launched after the discovery of…