Jeremy Kirk reports the final chapter in a case first noted on this blog last August and updated in November: Four men who ran what U.K. police say was the largest English-language criminal forum for selling stolen credit card numbers and the tools to steal data were imprisoned for a combined total of more than…
Category: Non-U.S.
Kr: Customers’ Information of Five-Star Hotel Exposed on Google
As the issue of privacy continues to become an ever increasing cause of concern in this technological world the personal information of guests staying at a group of luxury hotels in Korea has been found on Google. According to media reports Friday, customers’ information at the Ambassador Hotel Group, including names, birth dates, e-mail addresses,…
Ie: Skimming ‘mastermind’ held after raid on suburban house
Barry Duggan reports: A mastermind behind an international fraud operation responsible for skimming both private and business bank accounts has been uncovered in Limerick. Following a major joint investigation by gardai and customs officers, a Moldovan man was arrested at a house in Limerick city yesterday. The evidence recovered at the suburban home and taken…
Ie: Data breach code ‘not signed off’
Elaine Edwards reports: A code of practice that would have forced organisations to report cases where personal data was stolen or compromised cannot be enforced because it was not put before the Oireachtas prior to the dissolution of the last Dáil. Data Protection Commissioner Billy Hawkes approved the code last year to help organisations to…
UK: Computer with details of hundreds of children stolen in youth club burglary
A computer containing the names, ages, addresses and medical conditions of hundreds of children has been stolen in a raid on a youth club.Details of up to 700 youths are stored on the computer belonging to Sparks Project in Courtway Road, Orchard Park, north Hull. Tony Fee, who launched the youth project in 2006, has…
UK: Imperial College Dept. of Computing in IT Security Breach
The Department of Computing has found itself the subject of a “security breach”, and Imperial College’s ICT department is taking “precautionary” action to prevent malicious access to user accounts. An email to all students and staff within the department informed students that there had been “a root level compromise was discovered on the main shell…