Adam Shaw reports: A North London council has suspended its bin collection provider from handling sensitive material after letters containing residents’ personal information were blown into gardens and gutters. Brent Council is investigating a “data breach” after council documents fell off a Veolia truck on its way to a depot in Croydon. Read more at…
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Names and addresses of 620 FSB officers published in data breach
Tom Ball reports: The names and addresses of 620 people who are said to be FSB officers were published yesterday in what Kyiv said was a huge data breach of the Russian security agency. The Ukrainian directorate of intelligence claimed that the list included the personal details of agents engaging in “criminal activities” across Europe….
Ph: Fines for data privacy breach capped at P5 million
Ranier Allan Ronda reports: The National Privacy Commission (NPC) has set a ceiling of P5 million on fines imposed on data privacy violators, following a revision of its penalty system based on public consultations. The NPC presented its revised schedule of administrative fines set under the updated Circular on Administrative Fines and the scope of…
Hong Kong electoral office apologizes after employee accidentally sends details of 15,000 voters to random email
Kathleen Magramo reports: Hong Kong’s electoral office has apologised after an employee failed to follow guidelines and sent the personal details of about 15,000 voters to a random email address. The Registration and Electoral Office (REO) on Friday said the staff member intended to send files containing electors’ particulars to her personal email address on…
Hotel WiFi across MENA compromised and exposing private data
Kareem Chehayeb reports: Pakistani cybersecurity researcher Etizaz Mohsin was in a hotel room in Qatar when he unexpectedly discovered a technical vulnerability in its internet system that exposed the private information of hundreds of hotels and millions of guests worldwide. […] “I found out that there is a service running rsync [file synchronization tool], which…
Data leak at Desjardins: Industry watchdog wants to ban mortgage broker
Hugo Joncas reports (machine translation follows): Mathieu Joncas, who is also a private lender, bought confidential information on “150,000 to 200,000” Desjardins customers without ensuring their consent. During the hearings, he admitted having given this information to a fellow broker in January 2017. In September 2021, the disciplinary committee of the Organisme d’autoréglementation du courtage…