HackersBlog is reporting that Kapersky isn’t the only exposing customer data this week. BitDefender Portugal also seems to have a problem…. [Corrected headline 2-9-09 10:03 am to reflect that it is BitDefender Portugal, a BitDefender partner, who had the breach and not BitDefender.com. Apologies for any confusion in the headline.]
Category: Non-U.S.
Ca: Debit card fraud uncovered in Langley
On January 20 Langley RCMP received information from financial institution corporate security personnel detailing a debit card skimming which had occurred in north Langley. Corporate security advised he had attended the business in North Langley and examined the PIN pad which he found had been tampered with and contained suspect circuitry. Langley RCMP attended the…
Huge bank card scam hits Bermuda
How curious…. Canadian Tire had told me that 2% of their customers’s cards had been misused as a result of the Heartland Payment Systems breach. Now another non-US entity mentions 2%. Have we gotten reports from any UK banks yet? Hundreds of debit and credit card customers in Bermuda have been dragged into one of…
Ca: Hacked Trent server housed some personal information
Andrea Houston reports: Trent University is sending out alert letters to several donors and alumni after an off-site computer server containing some personal information was recently hacked. Dianne Lister, vice-president of external relations, said a power surge between Dec. 22 and Jan. 7 caused the firewall to fail, which left the server unprotected to hackers,…
UK: Royal Liverpool Hospital patient details stolen from car
Liza Williams reports: More than 300 patients waiting for kidney transplants at the Royal Liverpool Hospital have had their details stolen from a car boot. The names, addresses, dates of birth, hospital number and contact details of 354 people on the renal transplant list were taken, after a staff member’s car was broken into. Read…
UK: Information Commissioner hits another NHS Trust after data breaches
Siobhan Chapman reports: An NHS trust has been hit by enforcement action by the Information Commissioner’s Office following the theft of two laptops containing patient data. Brent Teaching Primary Care Trust was found to have breached data protection laws, after two laptops were stolen containing the personal information of 389 patients. The laptops were stored…