Regulation Asia reports: The Guangdong Communications Administration ordered 30 firms including banks and securities firms to fix the breaches and revamp their mobile phone apps. China’s GDCA (Guangdong Communications Administration) has reprimanded 30 banks, financial services and fintech firms for unauthorised data access and collection through their mobile phone apps, the SCMP reports. The GDCA alleges that…
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IE: Schools on security alert as gardaí probe online class breach
Katherine Donnelly and Robin Schiller report: Schools are on alert to IT security risks around online classes as a Garda investigation gets under way into how a number of men gained unauthorised access to a video lesson for second-year students. The breach, at a Co Meath school on Wednesday, was compounded when the men engaged…
ThinkMarkets Sues Former Employee for Data Theft
Arnab Shome reports: TF Global Markets (Aust) Limited, the Australian unit of forex broker ThinkMarkets, has filed a lawsuit against its former employee James Sorenson over some serious allegations of data theft and distributing them to its rival. The 31-page lawsuit filed at an Illinois court detailed that the former employee gained access to several confidential…
Ph: Privacy Commission summons operators of website that exposed car owners’ personal data
There’s an update to a data leak situation previously noted on this site. It’s always interesting to me to see how other countries handle privacy violations or data leaks. It looks like the NPC has the authority — and uses it — to order ISPs to block access to problematic web sites that violate privacy….
Ca: Laurentian Data Breach Class Action Approved by Court
The following is a press release. I’ll meet you on the other side: On October 19, 2021 (sic), a certification and settlement approval hearing took place at the Ontario Superior Court of Justice in respect of a settlement agreement with Spencer Brydges with respect to the above-noted action. On December 17, 2020 the Ontario Superior…
Cz: They attacked Hospital of Aftercare in Horažďovice; police are investigating
Jan Horák reports (translation): According to the findings of Aktuálně.cz, criminal investigators are revealing the background to the hacker attack on the aftercare hospital. Hackers attacked a medical facility in Horažďovice last week, knocking out part of its information systems. The hospital now operates without restrictions. The National Office for Cyber and Information Security consulted with the facility…