The Canadian Press reports: The federal privacy watchdog says a data breach at a contractor for Canada’s border agency involved as many as 1.38 million licence plate images and associated information. In a report detailing its investigation, the privacy commissioner’s office cites inconsistencies in the way the Canada Border Services Agency managed licence plate information…
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British teenager, 18, denies creating computer virus that crashed hundreds of institutions when he was just 14
David O’Dornan and Paul Higgins report: A teenager today denied creating a computer virus which allegedly ‘crashed hundreds of financial institutions across the world when he was just 14 years old. Josh Maunder, now 18, from Abbey Park in Bangor, Co Down in Northern Ireland, entered not guilty pleas to each of the 21 charges against…
Optus tells former Virgin Mobile and Gomo customers they could also be part of data breach
Josh Taylor reports: Former Virgin Mobile and Gomo customers are the latest to have been informed by Optus that their personal information was exposed in the company’s massive data breach, as an identification repair service reveals it has fielded a month’s worth of complaint calls in three days. Read more at The Guardian. In related news, Hannah…
Swachh City Platform Suffers Data Breach Leaking 16 Million User Records
Ravie Lakshmanan reports: A threat actor by the name of LeakBase has shared a database containing personal information allegedly affecting 16 million users of Swachh City, an Indian complaint redressal platform. Leaked details include usernames, email addresses, password hashes, mobile numbers, one-time passwords, last logged-in times, and IP addresses, among others, according to a report…
Hong Kong, Aoyuan Healthy Life Group hit by PT_Moisha ransomware group
Marco A. DeFelice has been looking into a number of new ransomware groups that have recently poked their heads out. PT_Moisha is one of the new names, but they tell Marco they are an old group: Aoyuan Healthy Life Group, with operational offices also in Sydney in Australia and in Toronto and Vancouver in Canada, is…
New changes allow Optus data leak victims to change licence numbers
Nick Pearson reports: State governments have begun announcing special changes to allow people exposed in the Optus data leak to get new driver’s licences as soon as possible. Among the details accessed by the hacker are driver’s licence numbers, which are commonly used to verify someone’s identity. NSW Customer Services Minister Victor Dominello said people in the state can get…