AP reports: German soccer club Stuttgart has been fined 300,000 euros ($357,000) for misusing private data about its members, a regulator said Wednesday. Stuttgart had been accused of passing on data which was potentially useful for marketing to third parties without informing members. Read more on AP.
Category: Non-U.S.
City company booked for data theft after complaint from US
Archana More reports: In what may be a first instance for the city, a local company and its director have been booked for data theft on a complaint filed by a foreign national. The Pune cyber police have registered an FIR against city-based Honey Software Company and its director, Sampurna Atmaramnani for copying and deleting…
Data leak at Dutch foreign credential assessment service impacts 18,000
ANP reports (translation): Foreigners looking for a job in the Netherlands can obtain an assessment of their diploma on the labor market from the organization Nuffic. The application system used by Nuffic has been tested by some sixty software developers in Serbia. This country is not part of the European Union, which means that rather strict rules…
Another hospital hit by ransomware in France, Spain’s public employment service hit with Ryuk, and China’s Cosco Shipping allegedly hacked by LORDBR
Another French hospital, Centre Hospitalier Général d’Oloron, has fallen victim to a ransomware attack. France Bleu reports (translation): The Oloron Sainte-Marie hospital (Pyrénées-Atlantiques) was the victim of a cyberattack on Monday March 8 in the early afternoon. No application works and a message asking for a ransom of $ 50,000 to be transferred to a…
University of the Highlands and Islands working to recover from cyberattack
University of the Highlands and Islands in the U.K. suffered a cyberattack that resulted in classes being canceled today. They tweeted about it here, and posted a statement on their web site: The University of the Highlands and Islands partnership is experiencing an ongoing cyber incident which has caused disruption to our systems and networks…
UK: Paedophile IT technician jailed after installing software onto work computers to spy on colleagues
Rebecca Speare-Cole reports: An IT technician who installed software onto computers at work to spy on his colleagues and was found with indecent images of children has been jailed. Andrew Cakebread, 36, stole 6,803 videos from his coworkers and their families, including 79 taken through hacked webcams. He also recorded footage inside his company’s staff…