Conall O Fátharta of Irish Examiner reports: Up to 3,000 Irish people have had their email accounts compromised by international hackers, it has emerged. The hackers managed to access the private emails of thousands of individuals whose details were then put on an Arabic website. A number of Irish banking institutions, county councils, universities, the…
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AU: Security breach over SA secret files
Hendrik Gout of The Independent Weekly reports: Secret police intelligence so sensitive that people named in the documents can’t even see it appears to have been released into the public domain, prompting calls for an Anti-Corruption Branch investigation. The top-secret files may contain unproven allegations and name people who have not necessarily been convicted of…
Ca: Subway Restaurant customers become fraud victims
The Branford Expositor reports that about 1,250 debit cards were skimmed at a Subway Restaurant, over a period of about six weeks from March 25 to May 4. Over 200 of the skimmed debit cards have been used for unauthorized financial transactions.
UK: Police authority leave confidential complaint details on website
The Mirror reports that Cambridgeshire Police left confidential complaint details on its website for 6 days.
Ca: Province solves medical mailing problem
The Canadian Press reports: New Brunswick health officials say they have corrected a mailing problem that caused confidential medical reports intended for a doctor to be mistakenly sent elsewhere. For over five years, Irene Doyle got a number of letters from the department of diagnostic imaging at Acadie-Bathurst Hospital that were sent to her post…
Pointer: European Parliament Adopts Position on Data Breach Notification Requirement for Telecoms and ISPs
The Privacy and Security Law Blog has a nice article by Hunton & Williams LLP on the new European Parliament position on data breach notification requirement for telecoms and ISPs. As the authors note, “For the first time in EU law the amendments [to the e-Privacy Directive] introduce a definition of “personal data breach” and…