The Ministry of Defence has lost or had stolen 340 laptops worth more than £600,000 in the last two years, figures reveal today. A total of 593 CDs, DVDs and floppy disks, 215 USB memory sticks, 96 removable hard disk drives and 13 mobile phones have also disappeared from the department since the release of…
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New CD on German tax dodgers surfaces
Another CD packed with evidence of German tax evasion on money totalling €500 million has been spirited out of a bank in Liechtenstein and is being offered to investigators, media reported Thursday. The data was offered to tax authorities in the northern state of Schleswig-Holstein months ago. The CD contains details of hundreds of Germans…
Coffee shop’s employee arrested over credit card fraud in Jakarta
The National police’s special crimes unit has arrested a credit card fraud suspect, identified as DDB, 26, an employee with the US-based Starbucks coffee shop in Jakarta. The unit chief Sr. Comr. Winston Tommy Watuliu said the suspect, a university graduate, collected data of the credit cards from the coffee shop customers’ receipts, as quoted…
Gambling site glitch leads to privacy breach for some users of online B.C. casino
The Canadian Press reports that the B.C. Lottery Corporation denies that there was any hacking involved in a breach that allowed some online gamblers access to others’ information: The Crown corporation added casino-style games such as blackjack and poker to its PlayNow.com site last week, and the service soon crashed as users choked the company’s…
NDP: B.C.’s new online gambling website may have been hacked (updated)
Vivian Luk reports: British Columbians’ personal information may have been compromised when the government’s online gambling website, PlayNow.com, crashed last week, according to the New Democratic Party. PlayNow, the first government-sanctioned online casino in North America, was shut down only hours after it was launched last Thursday. The B.C Lottery Corp. said unexpectedly high traffic…
Turks hack Israeli account details
Nitzan Sadan reports: Turkish hackers have obtained the passwords and credit card details of 32,561 Israeli users, the Israeli We-CMS blog says. According to the blog, a Turkish message board has uploaded a list containing credit card details, PayPal and bank usernames and passwords. The list is also said to contain more than 140 passwords…