Mehal Jain reports: The Supreme Court on Tuesday remarked that in a case of hacking and data theft, in addition to penal provisions of the IT Act, offences under the IPC would also be attracted and that the IT Act would not exclude the applicability of the IPC. Read more on LiveLaw.in. Related: Order.
Category: Non-U.S.
Riagg files of thousands of patients open and exposed in a basement
The this post uses machine translation of a report in Dutch. It concerns the discovery of patient files on CDs found unsecured in the basement of a building that, until 2015, was a former mental health institution — the Riagg Rijnmond Foundation. Rutger de QuayRik Wassens report that the young man who found the files…
Bizarro banking malware targets 70 banks in Europe and South America
Ionut Ilascu reports: A banking trojan named Bizarro that originates from Brazil has crossed the borders and started to target customers of 70 banks in Europe and South America. Once landed on a Windows system, the malware can force users into entering banking credentials and uses social engineering to steal two-factor authentication codes. Read more…
Some incidents reported in France this week
Some incidents that were reported in France this week: The University of Franche-Comté reported what L’Est Républicain described as a major attack n May 14. Some users received emails with malicious attachments. There does not seem to be any follow-up or notice on the university’s page, so it’s not clear how major this really was…
Domino’s India hack: new developments
There are new developments in the Domino’s India breach first disclosed last month. Zee reports: Domino’s India has become a victim of a major data leak as more than 18 crore orders’ data has been put up on dark web for sale as a searchable database, allowing hackers to track and trace users from their…
Air India data breach: Personal info of 4.5 million people leaked due to ‘sophisticated cyberattack’
Poulomi Saha reports: A massive breach in Air India’s server this February led to compromising personal data of nearly 45,00,000 [4.5 million] people worldwide. The leaked data was collected between August 26, 2011 and February 3, 2021. This included people’s personal details like name, date of birth, contact information, passport information, ticket details, credit card…