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…
Category: Non-U.S.
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…
HM Courts Service staff breached government database of personal information
Mark Ballard reports: Staff working for Her Majesty’s Courts Service have breached security on the government database that stores personal data about everyone in the UK. Also, local authorities sacked 26 employees last year for snooping on personal data stored on the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) Customer Information System (CIS), which, with 90…
UK: Barking and Dagenham data breach put bank details at risk
A data breach cost the council £20,000 to fix after fears that bank details of employees may have been hacked into. Council staff discovered the breach on February 3 and found that the financial system had been cloned into a test server, copying sensitive data. They detected a large amount of hacking activity from overseas…