First it was Megafon leaking SMS history and having it indexed on Yandex’s search engine. Now there’s a bigger breach. Natalya Krainova of The Moscow Times reports: A third Internet leak in just a week has exposed the private shopping habits of people at more than 80 online stores, including those selling model cars, perfume…
Category: Non-U.S.
AU: Westpac cans cards as AFP investigates breaches
Luke Hopewell reports: Westpac has this week confirmed that it has canned the cards of an undisclosed number of customers following a fresh merchant data breach. The breach comes as the Australian Federal Police (AFP) opens a new investigation into recent merchant data compromises. Westpac told ZDNet Australia this week that merchant data breaches are…
User details stolen from Tas Govt
Darren Paul reports: Hackers claim to have made off with 1800 usernames, email addresses and hashed passwords held by the Tasmanian Government. Emails are linked to state agencies including Departments of Premier and Cabinet; Treasury; Infrastructure, Energy and Resources; Health and Human Services; Primary Industries, Parks, Water and Environment; and Economic Development, Tourism and the…
GIS admits @AnonAustria hack was worse than it originally acknowledged
The Austrian Independent reports: Hackers nicked significantly more data from a subsidiary of Austrian broadcaster ORF than officials initially admitted, it has emerged. A spokesman for GIS, the ORF’s radio and TV fee agency, announced today (Tues) 214,000 customer data sets were stolen in the attack last week. He added that 96,000 of the data…
UK: Confidential files found in street – will Lancashire Police be taken out to the ICO shed again?
It seems like only last week I was reading about how the Lancashire Constabulary had to sign an undertaking with the Information Commissioner’s Office because they exposed personal information. Oh wait, it was last week. Now, it seems, they may be in trouble again – and again, it involves failing to secure and protect the…
BET24 data breach: what did they know, when did they know it, and why the hell didn’t they disclose?
John Leyden reports: BET24.com warned customers on Monday that their personal data may have been exposed by a breach that took place in December 2009. The gambling site is only warning clients 19 months after the breach, although it said it had taken other measures, including resetting passwords, at the time of the breach. The…