Andrew Alderson reports: Experts fear that HM Revenue & Customs has been hit by another security breach, less than three years after it lost the details of 25 million taxpayers. Demands for an investigation come after a woman from Bedfordshire received direct mail using an incorrect surname that only appeared on an HMRC database. One…
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(update) NZ asks FBI to help nail hackers
Jared Savage reports: The FBI has been asked to help police investigate an international cyber-crime syndicate that hacked into a council-owned carpark to steal credit card details from thousands of customers. The theft of credit card details from payment machines at the Downtown carpark in central Auckland was discovered in November. It had gone undetected…
Ca: More than 300 charges laid in fraud case
Two Edmonton men face over 300 identity theft and fraud charges after police busted a credit card and mail scam. Wilfred Usiayo, 41, and Frank Ejira Otoroh, 39, were both charged with 140 counts of obtaining and possessing identity information, as well as other charges relating to fraudulent activity around a mailbox. […] Officers seized…
Ca: ‘I have her stuff. Who has mine?’
Candice Mac Lean reports: When Vicki Hill opened a large, brown envelope stuffed with financial documents last week, she expected it was the student loan information she requested from CIBC weeks earlier. Vicki Hill ended up getting someone else’s documents containing personal financial information, but some of her documents she requested weren’t delivered. Instead, among…
Knesset online security lapse exposes secret Mossad data
Amos Harel and Jonathan Lis report: The Knesset Web site committed a major security lapse several weeks ago by publicizing the names of high-level Mossad and Shin Bet officials whose identities are kept secret by law. Read more on Haaretz.com. It seems that this isn’t the first time the Knesset web site has exposed sensitive…
Swiss mull lawsuit against Germany over bank data
Switzerland is still considering whether to take Germany to court over the purchase of stolen bank data the country is using to root out tax dodgers, Swiss President Doris Leuthard said on Wednesday. “The government has not yet decided,” Leuthard told broadcaster Deutschlandfunk ahead of a meeting with German Chancellor Angela Merkel in Berlin. Some…