Jennifer O’Brien reports on the post-breach discussions going on in the Thames Valley School District after a student exposed 27,000 passwords: There are “many lessons” to be learned from the security breach that left 27,000 Thames Valley student passwords exposed on the Internet, two senior school board educators said Sunday. […] In an interview, Tucker…
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AU: Telstra red-faced after email error
Lucy Battersby reports: Telstra has accidentally leaked personal details of 570 customers after an employee sent an email to customers waiting for products rather than the stores delivering the products. An attachment containing customer names, general location and email addresses was sent to store owners asking them to update the order status. However, the Telstra…
Jp: Police seize personal info on Internet subscribers after terrorism data leak
As a follow-up to a serious data breach in Japan: Tokyo police have seized personal information and Internet access records of subscribers from two Internet service providers (ISPs), suspecting that police documents on international terrorism possibly leaked online via their systems, officials said. The Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) seized the information on suspicion of obstruction…
UK: Action taken after MPs personal details compromised
The Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (IPSA) has agreed to take action after MPs personal details were accidentally placed at risk on the MPs expenses database, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) said today. The expenses claims were accessible for a period of 21 hours, following IT maintenance work in July 2010 which inadvertently allowed those persons…
Russian gang used customized virus bought from hacker forum on ATMs
Members of an organized criminal group responsible for infecting ATMs with a computer virus have been arrested in Yakutsk, capital of the far eastern Russian Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) according to the Ministry of the Interior. The leader of the gang sought the services of a hacker through an international Internet forum. Once recruited the…
ZA: Credit card fraud costs CT officials millions, but cases are down
Nathan Adams reports some statistics from Western Cape in South Africa that may be of interest to those who want to compare trends internationally: Western Cape police on Tuesday said credit card fraud cost provincial officials nearly R16 million this year. This type of fraud has decreased both in the Western Cape and nationally. […]…