AFP reports: Norway’s parliament said Tuesday it had been the target of a “vast” cyber attack that enabled hackers to access the emails of some lawmakers. The hackers’ identities were not immediately known. “The parliament has recently been targeted in a vast cyber attack,” the institution wrote in a statement. Read more on The Local…
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In: RPF Busts Major Cross-border Gang of Hackers and Touts Involved in E-ticketing, CBI to Take Over Case
PTI reports: The Railway Protection Force of the South Western Railways on Tuesday claimed a major breakthrough in busting a cross-border criminal gang involved in illegal software for e-tickets by arresting the kingpin and over 100 panel developers. The gang, according to the SWR, had a network of 25,000 hackers and touts across India and…
“They tore the heart out of my business”: How a hacker nearly cost Gillian Franklin her $130 million business
Matthew Elmas reports: Heat Group managing director Gillian Franklin was in London last year when a text message from a staffer sent her world into a tail-spin. The $130 million wholesaling business had come to a screeching halt, placed behind lock and key after a hacker infiltrated its systems in a ransomware attack. Almost everything…
UK: Southern Water customers could view others’ personal data by tweaking URL parameters
Gareth Corfield reports: Southern Water – British supplier of the liquid of life – botched its internal Sharepoint implementation so badly that a customer was able to view other people’s account details. Reg reader Chris H discovered that the way Southern Water had set up Sharepoint to host customer information as a “your account” style section…
‘Human error’ results in privacy breach for Children’s Disability Services clients: Manitoba government
Charles Lefebvre reports: The Manitoba government says ‘human error’ resulted in personal information about Children’s Disability Services (CDS) clients being unintentionally shared this week. On Friday, the province said in a news release that the privacy breach occurred on Aug. 26, when staff from CDS “accidentally sent an email intended for the Manitoba Advocate for…
Over 54,000 scanned NSW driver’s licences found in open cloud storage
Juha Saarinen reports: Tens of thousands of scanned NSW driver’s licenses and completed tolling notice statutory declarations were left exposed on an open Amazon Web Services storage instance, but Transport for NSW doesn’t know how the sensitive personal data ended up in the cloud. The open AWS S3 bucket was found by Bob Diachenko of…