Joe Belanger reports: Dozens of Stratford residents were bilked of thousands of dollars from their bank accounts last weekend in a debit card scam, police say. How the culprits were able to withdraw the money is still being investigated, said Stratford police Insp. Sam Theocharis. It’s not known how many bank accounts were hit and…
Category: Non-U.S.
Monster Says Hackers May Have Stolen Data in Several Countries
Simon Thiel reports: Monster Worldwide Inc., the operator of the most-used jobs Web site, said hackers may have stolen confidential details of users in more than one country after the Times reported the data of 4.5 million U.K. users was accessed. Monster hasn’t established which countries were affected, Michelle Brown, a company spokeswoman in London,…
UK: Police officer denies data breach
A police officer has appeared in court charged with “recklessly obtaining information” from Devon and Cornwall Constabulary files about a woman – 96 times. Paul Meseg, aged 50, entered a not guilty plea when he appeared before magistrates in Plymouth yesterday. It is alleged that, while working in Tiverton and at stations in East Devon,…
UK: Hackers steal details of 4.5 million in attack on Monster jobs site
Alexi Mostrous reports: The personal details of millions of job seekers have been stolen in the largest data protection theft in Britain, The Times has learned. Hackers gained access to confidential information provided by 4.5 million people to Monster.co.uk, the online recruitment site. Names, passwords, telephone numbers, email addresses, birth dates, sex and ethnicity data…
UK: Financial Workers Regularly Forget USB Sticks at Dry Cleaners
From the this-is-not-what-we-meant-by-cleaning-your-drive dept: As data loss reaches an all time high, a new survey shows financial workers in the UK are regularly forgetting USB sticks at the dry cleaners. According to a survey by Texas-based data security firm Credant Technologies, 9,000 USB sticks were forgotten in people’s pockets in the UK last year as…
AU: Spammers hack into Government jobs website
Asher Moses reports: The NSW Government website used to advertise public service jobs has been hacked into and the perpetrators have spammed the Government’s database of job seekers with phony vacancies in an effort to steal personal data and possibly to spread viruses. The Department of Commerce, which administers the jobs.nsw.gov.au site, refused to say…