Tristan Cork reports: A woman from Bristol has been awarded £3,000 in compensation after discovering Tesco had lost 15 years of her employment records, including sensitive medical information. Jacqueline Ogborne worked for the supermarket chain for 30 years but said the data breach left her ‘feeling violated’. The 55-year-old only discovered Tesco had lost her employment…
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Over 400,000 German Students Data Leaked by a Flawed API
Manikanta Immann reports: Scoolio is a german app for students, used mainly for educational updates, record keeping, and networking. After informing the flaw to Scoolio’s developer, a fix was released this week to patch the bug. […] In September, a security researcher named Lilith Wittmann of Zerforchung firm has discovered a flawed API in Scoolio, through which she was able…
Cyber attack paralyzes Eberspaecher
The following is a machine translation: Hackers paralyzed the international automotive supplier Eberspächer with a major cyber attack on Sunday morning. The website is also down. To protect customers and employees, the necessary steps to counteract the attack were taken immediately after the attack became known, the company said. Read more on SR.de.
Sg: Employment agency that suffered data breach says most stolen data is from fake profiles
David Sun reports: An employment agency that suffered a data breach earlier this month has issued a statement acknowledging the incident, but said it never received any ransom demand to recover the data. In its first comments on the attack, Protemps Employment Services said on Wednesday (Oct 27) that most of the stolen data was from…
Desorden Group expands attack on Central Group after deal to pay them allegedly fell through
Yesterday, this site reported that Desorden Group hit Central Restaurants Group (CRG) in Thailand. A Desorden spokesperson had told this site that there would be more details to be revealed, and now there are. It appears that Centara Hotel Group is part of the Central Group that had been breached. Centara has now issued a…
Nz: ACC ‘has work to do’ to regain trust after privacy breach – Govt
The need for appropriate access controls to sensitive information is an issue everywhere. ACC is New Zealanders’ government-provided insurance coverage for many personal injury claims. As such, the employees have access to files with personal and often sensitive information. 1News reports: ACC “has work to do” to regain Kiwis’ trust that their private information is…