Laura Dobberstein reports: Microsoft and five other companies have received fines totaling US$75K from South Korea’s Personal Information Protection Commission (PIPC), for running afoul of local data protection laws. The Commission fined Microsoft 16.4 million won (US$14,700) for failing to have protective measures on administrative accounts that led to the leak of over 119,000 email accounts, 144…
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ASEAN companies still targeted by ALTDOS threat actors
In December of 2020, DataBreaches.net reported on a threat actor (or actors) calling themself “ALTDOS” who had attacked a Thai securities trading firm, Country Group Securities (CGSEC) . CGSEC wasn’t the only Thai entity they attacked, and within weeks, they had attacked MonoNext and 3BB, subsidiaries of Jasmine International. Angered by the entities’ response or lack of response to…
Taiwan Kadokawa notifies consumers while responding to ransomware attack
Taiwan Kadokawa Co, is part of the Kadokawa corporation group of companies. On June 3, they discovered they had been attacked. In a subsequent press release of June 4 and statement, they explained what appears to be a ransomware attack (machine translation): Taiwan Kadokawa Co., Ltd. (Taipei City, Chairman: Taketo Iwasaki, hereinafter referred to as…
South Africa lays down the law on cybercrime
Karen Allen writes: A new law brings South Africa up to international standards for fighting cybercrime. […] Together with the Protection of Personal Information (POPI) Act 2020, which will be in full effect after 30 June 2021, the new cyber law is a key part of South Africa’s armoury in the fight against cybercrime. […] In summary, cybercrime…
National cyber crime investigation sparked after Northampton college hit by hackers
Logan MacLeod reports: A national cyber crime investigation has been sparked after a college in Northampton was hit by hackers, forcing the school to close due to safety concerns. Kingsthorpe College officials say it was the victim of a cyber attack, which has ‘significantly reduced’ its capacity to run its information management systems, meaning it…
SmartSearch issues warning over risk of GDPR breach
admin posted: Anti-money laundering specialist SmartSearch said regulated businesses in the housing chain which are relying on manual customer records risk non-compliance more than three years after the GDPR laws came into force in the UK. John Dobson, CEO at SmartSearch explained even after this time had lapsed a lot of firms did not have…